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I hear it gets way, way too hot. I don't like the sound of that either.It doubles as a space heater, a bargain that saves precious desktop space ;)
But seriously, it's all about driving up ARPU (which applies to the new unlimited plans also). With decreasing subscriber counts and without increasing revenues per subscriber, it's game over.
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of course I did not need or want the new style modem as this one works fine.
later if I need to upgrade sat or service it "might" be required.(?) bummer
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ARPU????Average Revenue Per User - as of the August Earnings call - average revenue per user had increased (actually subscriber in ViaSat's case) by 11% from the prior year to a new record high of $66.11 as calculated on a monthly basis. During that same period the number of subscribers appears to have declined by 10% after peaking some 2-3 years ago. Increased revenue per user offset the losses due to attrition.
What's surprising to me is that it's only $66.11 per month... perhaps an indication that there's little demand for the higher priced plans - despite clamoring here for them - seems to me that the vast majority of users are content with the lower priced entry points at this time. Perhaps we all overestimate the market for consumer satellite services since we're all too close to it.
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I think when the new satellite comes online, they will get more subs from Hughesnet whose infrastructure and technology is dated.
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Largely the modem is like that because there's not a 3rd party option. If you had cable or DSL you'd have a pretty good chance of going to some electronic store, buying a modem outright and avoiding the rental fee. Unfortunately the reason that a 3rd party option isn't available for satellite is that first and foremost satellite internet makes up for such a incredibly small number of internet customers in the USA. We have A LOT of customers. As does that other company. However it's a drop in the bucket compared to DSL or Cable which could have the combined Satellite internet customer number in one major city. So a manufacturer likely doesn't see the value in marketing to that resource. Never say never though, but as of now that's the reality.
The modem is encoded only to work for our service. It won't work with any other company's internet service. WE do offer some things like at the point of sale to do a prepaid lease payment where you can pay for the 24 months in advance option or for a brief moment offered a lifetime lease payment. That took away the 9.99 monthly. But that was the closest option we've had to not paying the monthly lease fee like our DSL/Cable counterparts have.
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This wasn't a request for an explanation just a suggestion. In a day and age where Cellular providers can bring their service with all taxes included and no extras charges at a rate that challenges their competitors it didn't really seem that it would be an issue to suggest this to a satellite Internet provider. I'll refrain from doing so in the future.
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Just Look around! Nationwide you have only three Biggies,Dish, Hughesnet, and Exede. Yes I know there's Liberty and some others but they are regional. So If you want choice you're in the wrong neighborhood. I think there are very few here that wouldn't prefer being on a land based internet. But if you are like me and have no other practical means of having internet due to where I have chosen to live, satellite service is the only solution that doesn't break the bank ($700/mo for 100G on Verizon last time I checked). Oh yeah cellular services, suck too much data and say goodbye to their network. We are now seeing limits on wireless hot spots limited to around 20-30 Gigs.
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Dish resells internet service that i (as does Directv) s sourced by either ViaSat or Hughesnet depending on the subscribers location.
Doing so is a poor choice in my opinion as it clouds "support" if the issue is more than something routine.
In the end however there are only two sat internet providers.
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