[PLUG-TALK] Verizon 5g home internet offering

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Tue May 30 12:46:11 UTC 2023


On Mon, May 29, 2023, 21:24 Russell Senior <russell at pdxlinux.org> wrote:

> Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I had a visit from a sales person. She claimed $50/mo, 50 Meg bits/sec
> > rate (I forgot whether up or down). She said she could only sign up 4
> > accounts for the area she was covering. Claimed the tower will support
> only
> > the internet; not cell phones.
> >
>
> The door-to-door sales people are generally not purveyors of information
> you can rely on. The "only 4 accounts available" sounds like it's about
> creating a psychology of scarcity to drive buying enthusiasm.
>
> My general advice is that you are better off with a wire.
>

Is this 2010 again $50 for 50Mb/s down 2Mb/s up? Are you switching from
dial up?

CenturyLink sells 300Mb/s symmetrical for $40.

This sounds as expensive as Starlink on per Mb/s cost.

Just saying, T

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