Okay, so, like a year or so ago Verizon sold a bunch of unwanted landlines to Frontier. Today, Verizon declared a technological war on Frontier. It's called Home Phone Connect, and - I'm sure coincidentally - it's being trial marketed to customers in a market largely served by Frontier. It's a landline to CDMA adapter. The device is free (with contract?) and the plans are about $10/month to allow it to share your family plan's minutes (same as an extra line on a family plan...) and $20/month for unlimited calling. Which is really odd, since it's using the same mobile network a Verizon mobile phone does. Presumably, they're assuming a landline replacement will see less use than a mobile. Or it's simply charging what people will pay :) That's cheaper than a landline.
Combine this with Verizon's plan to offer LTE network-wide by 2014, which will be at least as fast as the DSL the vast majority of Frontier subscribers can get, and should have higher data caps than CDMA, what will become of Frontier?
It looks to me like it's possible that Verizon sold Frontier areas they weren't upgrading because they knew that their wireless division had plans that would make those assets irrelevant in the market. Wouldn't that be insider trading or some other crime?
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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