Now, first off let me be clear, I am not complaining. Not one bit. Yet, I do ponder the following questions and would love some answers.
1. Why can Exede now offer more bandwidth in highly congested areas such as Beam 329 when we have been told repeatedly it simply was not possible due to congestion and the high utilization in the area?
2. Why can Exede now afford to drop its rates by so much when #1 is the case?
3. Does Exede foresee any increase of problems in the Beams where they are offering higher data caps at the lower prices?
Forgive me if these seem like stupid questions, but for a very long time users have been clamoring for higher data caps and lower prices and Exede has repeatedly (and successfully I might add) made the case that this is just the cost of Satellite and there isn't much to be done about it.
Then another company launches a satellite and offers lower prices and suddenly Exede can afford to drop pricing and increase data caps to meet the challenge brought forth by the new satellite going up and the plans the other company is offering.
It seems that one of three things is true:
1. Exede could have done this sooner, but chose not to so as to ensure the max return on investment for current data plans.
2. Exede doesn't really have the capacity to do this, but is doing it now to try to keep customers from switching providers before the new Exede satellite can launch.
3. Exede has lost enough users in areas to the other company that #1 is no longer true due to the loss of customer base, and #2 is also not true due to so many users leaving Exede.
I doubt anyone at Exede can give the actual answer, but I would love to know why these can be offered now, when it simply was not possible before. We may not get the real answer, but I figure if nothing else this can make for a lively discussion.
Conspiracy Theorists ... Begin Now!
1. Why can Exede now offer more bandwidth in highly congested areas such as Beam 329 when we have been told repeatedly it simply was not possible due to congestion and the high utilization in the area?
2. Why can Exede now afford to drop its rates by so much when #1 is the case?
3. Does Exede foresee any increase of problems in the Beams where they are offering higher data caps at the lower prices?
Forgive me if these seem like stupid questions, but for a very long time users have been clamoring for higher data caps and lower prices and Exede has repeatedly (and successfully I might add) made the case that this is just the cost of Satellite and there isn't much to be done about it.
Then another company launches a satellite and offers lower prices and suddenly Exede can afford to drop pricing and increase data caps to meet the challenge brought forth by the new satellite going up and the plans the other company is offering.
It seems that one of three things is true:
1. Exede could have done this sooner, but chose not to so as to ensure the max return on investment for current data plans.
2. Exede doesn't really have the capacity to do this, but is doing it now to try to keep customers from switching providers before the new Exede satellite can launch.
3. Exede has lost enough users in areas to the other company that #1 is no longer true due to the loss of customer base, and #2 is also not true due to so many users leaving Exede.
I doubt anyone at Exede can give the actual answer, but I would love to know why these can be offered now, when it simply was not possible before. We may not get the real answer, but I figure if nothing else this can make for a lively discussion.
Conspiracy Theorists ... Begin Now!
Brian Shackelford
Gregory Davis
Brian Shackelford
Gregory Davis
Brian Shackelford
El Dorado Networks
Any company that stubbornly clings to what they once touted, instead of pivoting to meet changing, competitive market conditions, runs the serious risk of going out of business.
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So, then how should I feel as a customer knowing that what I had been told previously by a company may not accurate? It just seems suspect that suddenly there is ability and capacity to offer higher data caps when the argument has been they were full up. Then there is the other side, maybe they are full up and just offering these plans in the hopes they can make it work until their new sat goes up later this month and goes online later this year. If that is the case then again that is now detrimental to the quality of the product being delivered which is also something Exede has touted.
Don't get me wrong , I am not asking why they are doing it now, I am asking how can they do it now when it was not possible before?
I guess there is a possibility some commercial, government or military bandwidth has been freed up by another competitor in the market and that space is now being offered to us now in the form of higher caps. That is the only thing that makes any sense in my mind.