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If you was the company taking over Digital Region
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02-08-2013, 05:37 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
What is the unique selling point of DR?
Now that DR's near monopoly of high speed broadband in some areas of South Yorkshire is being steadily eroded by BT. What other USP does DR have, or could it have, to allow it to genuinely compete with BT lead services? To compete it is going to have to compete on either cost or service or a combination of both. Somewhere in the cost / service equation it has to find a USP. Find the USP, find the reason for growth, find the reason for growth you will find the reason for investment. If there is no USP then as more and more BT boxes open the DR network is going to become increasingly redundant. So what USP could DR have? |
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02-08-2013, 06:34 PM (This post was last modified: 02-08-2013 06:37 PM by jody-ASK4.)
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
(02-08-2013 09:26 AM)essenby Wrote: It's easy to keep your head above water if you have a captive consumer base. If you live in the KCOM area, and you want a telephone line, you get it from KCOM. Subscribers there don't even have the option of switching telephone services to another provider because that nearly always requires a BT line, which they can't get. Even though they can get SKY satellite services - they can't get SKY broadband, and that is a very sore point amongst a number of my friends/relatives. Slightly amusingly, KCOM have outsourced some (all?) of their network management to BT so they're still getting revenue from that area indirectly. (28-07-2013 03:01 PM)SpencerUk Wrote: Me and @WillPS have the right idea here You'd probably struggle with starting your own ISP now unless you've already got access to an ISP's resources i.e. IP space - as there's not much IPv4 left in Europe you'd have issues trying to get a serious number of customers connected to the IPv4 Internet (which is still the vast majority of what people want/need to be able to access). |
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07-08-2013, 06:39 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
@jody-ASK4
Kickstarter perhaps? haha @alec1951 Re selling point, thats a good question. I can't really think of one at the moment which springs to mind. Regards
Spencer Davies Administrator |
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08-08-2013, 08:25 AM
Post: #14
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
Not sure Kickstarter could help with getting IPv4 space?
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08-08-2013, 01:05 PM
Post: #15
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
The kickstarter to take on the debt..one problem at a time Jody..baby steps haha.
Regards
Spencer Davies Administrator |
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08-08-2013, 01:51 PM
Post: #16
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
(02-08-2013 05:37 PM)alec1951 Wrote: So what USP could DR have? That is the big question. They should probably push:
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08-08-2013, 01:55 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
Also DR ISP charge to install, whereas BT do not. They have a lot of work to do to make this a viable proposition in my eyes.
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08-08-2013, 02:04 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
Install cost is a big factor, It almost put me off moving to DR, the lack of a deal did too.
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08-08-2013, 02:27 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
I will be moving as soon as my contract is up, if not before unless pricing falls in to line with the competition.
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08-08-2013, 03:16 PM
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RE: If you was the company taking over Digital Region
Isn't Openreach testing out self installs at the moment for FTTC?.
What this network needs is a major supplier to get onboard which should then bring the prices down, but then as a result, it may break Origin, LittleBigOne/Chess, Ask4's business model. Sadly, I can't think of any ISP who would actually want this. I mean O2 isn't in the fixed line business, Sky has its own LLU as does TalkTalk..Virgin Media don't really need it Regards
Spencer Davies Administrator |
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