[olug] Cox Business Pricing

[T. J. Brumfield]

That is correct. It isn't true fiber to the house at this stage, but
they're claiming they will eventually have fiber to the house.

-- T. J.

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Kenny Kant
<kenny.kant at running-config.com> wrote:
> I understand the Qwest Fiber service to be nothing more than marketing hype.
>  They do not deliver "FIOS Like" / Fiber to the home, rather they have
> re-wired a number of their neighborhood nodes with Fiber.  You still have
> copper running to the house and DSL delivering the service.  Has anyone here
> in Omaha used it yet?  I know that it is not available yet where I live
> (Ralston) and we have a Qwest CO right across the way.
>
> Kenny
>
>
>
> On 3/9/2010 9:10 PM, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>>
>> Qwest is supposed to be offering 20 meg FIOS lines for $99, but only
>> in select neighborhoods. I'd also look into that.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Dave Rowe<dave at roweware.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone had luck getting Cox to budge on their Cox Business
>>> pricing?  Seen here:
>>> http://ww2.cox.com/business/omaha/data/pricing.cox it runs $275/month
>>> for their top tier, which is comparable to the Premier tier on the
>>> residential side ($60/month), with the only notable difference being
>>> having a static IP and the port restrictions removed?  Is there
>>> something I'm missing?  I thought it would be nice to get that in my
>>> home office, but certainly cannot stomach that pricing.
>>>
>>> Just curious if anyone has worked with a sales person directly and
>>> gotten that huge rate reduced.  I'm the only person who would be using
>>> it, so it's not like the bandwidth would be any different than the
>>> residential line - plus, it'd be the exact same line...heck, I
>>> wouldn't even touch 1 of the 10 e-mail addresses they include.
>>>
>>> -Dave