ripdog:

 

 A reasonable argument, but does that mean Spark is selectively upgrading towers or Skinny rejecting customers based on nearest tower? "Managing bandwidth" sounds nice but at the end of the day, surely your only tools are slowing some people down or increasing capacity...?

 

As others have said, we need to carefully manage capacity on the network to ensure a good service for all users.  When you register for Skinny Broadband you enter your address and we validate that this is in an area with sufficient 4G capacity.  Knowing the number of customers in each area allows us to manage the future capacity of the network.

Fantastic to see a even more competitive offer, will be interesting to see Sparks reply as they are now $30+ more for 80GB.

Great offer, Skinny, especially for the rurals. 

SATTV:

 

@livingskinny

 

Looking at your website you are using CGNAT

 

I use VoIP at home, is there any chance we can change the APN to get an IP address or pay a little more for an IP address.

 

This is very attractive as we are still years away from UFB in our area and we have realy slow DSL as we are so far ffrom the exchange.

 

Cheers

 

John

 

loceff13:

 

Fantastic to see a even more competitive offer, will be interesting to see Sparks reply as they are now $30+ more for 80GB.

 

Skinny is owned by Spark. I would think Skinny primarily exists for the purpose of price discrimination.  So I don't see them trying to compete with Skinny. They'll be quite happy to sell the same product for to one demographic for more, and the same product to a different demographic for less.

I agree this an amazing offer. Nice one Skinny.

loceff13:

 

Fantastic to see a even more competitive offer, will be interesting to see Sparks reply as they are now $30+ more for 80GB.

 

Technically this is Sparks offer seeing Skinny is a sister company.

I don't see why Skinny crashed the market. It's going to make things a lot harder for Spark to launch their mass market offering.

IMHO the price is too cheap.

sbiddle:

I don't see why Skinny crashed the market. It's going to make things a lot harder for Spark to launch their mass market offering.

IMHO the price is too cheap.

 

sbiddle:

I don't see why Skinny crashed the market. It's going to make things a lot harder for Spark to launch their mass market offering.

IMHO the price is too cheap.

 

This just makes me more sad that I can't get this service in my location. 

Firebreaker:

sbiddle:

 

I don't see why Skinny crashed the market. It's going to make things a lot harder for Spark to launch their mass market offering.

 

 

 

IMHO the price is too cheap.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course you'd say that, you have great Internet.

That has nothing to do with it.

I'm saying that because it's basically undercut copper which leaves no room for movement. It also means Spark are going to face an uphill battle when they try and position

I know all about Spark's strategy with this offering and their reasons for targeting low end customers with fixed wireless because they get to keep 100% of the revenue rather than having to pay Chorus. I also understand the economics of what they're trying to do and the real world reality that if they price something too low there is no going back. If suddenly capacity becomes an issue you can't just decide to go and put prices up to solve the issue.

My real pick is that it's to pre-empt at least 2 other players looking to enter the fixed LTE market with 2600MHz spectrum. The market dynamics have fundamentally changed when the product is already being given away.

sbiddle:

 

I don't see why Skinny crashed the market. It's going to make things a lot harder for Spark to launch their mass market offering.

 

IMHO the price is too cheap.

 

 

 

Spark always had the best value high end offering(80GB/$85 +cheaper overage $20 for 15GB vs $20 for 10GB at Skinny) and this new offer is just under half the cost of 95GB($105) at Spark. It's nuts.