Verizon gets aggressive with DSL

While it’s king of the residential access hill in select areas where it’s deployed FiOS fiber service, most of Verizon’s broadband customers connect via DSL over it’s tired old twisted pair infrastructure. It could be that the Cable guys have been eating away at V’s market share. When you do not have the best offering, you compete on price. Since a price drop is bound to send Wall Street into gyrations the dark helmeted V has decided to give new customers half of a year free with a  contract.

What’s truly amazing is how little the cable guys have invested to enable them to take more market share. It’’s more like demand has driven consumers to a bigger pipe, and the cable guy is the only game in town. Meanwhile back at the FCC, “stimulus” dollars are being spent on pretty new maps. So much for big government help with broadband. How about undoing the duopoly instead?

Verizon Communications will try to boost the numbers in its DSL business by offering six months of free service to customers who commit to a one-year agreement, and the telco also announced price breaks and three months free multiroom DVR for new FiOS bundle subscribers.

The six-free-months offer is available until Jan. 16, 2010, for Verizon’s 1-, 3- or 7.1-Mbps DSL tiers service as part of a one-year agreement. In addition, customers who order new DSL bundles online also will receive a free modem and an additional $5 off qualifying bundles. (Multichannel News)