Comments on: For Cablevision Division, Business Services Mean Big Money

By: Comcast Launches 100Mbps Business Service to Take on Telcos

Comcast Launches 100Mbps Business Service to Take on Telcos — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:00:46 +0000

[...] won’t have the 250GB per month cap that residential consumers have. The offering is part of a larger push by cable companies into the small to medium business market dominated by telecommunications companies and dedicated [...]

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:38:46 +0000

Thanks for the plug Tom – yes, LIFE generally can beat out Lightpath by price in most cases. We also offer a load of Value Added Services (Data Backup, E-Mail Archive, Hosting, Colocation, Integration services) that Lightpath doesn’t offer.

(disclosure, I do manage LIFE’s network)

By: majortom1981

majortom1981 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:57 +0000

Lightpaths biggest problem is its price. On long island (its home base) There is a company called Long Island Fiber which beat out cablevision by $1000 a month.

same internet speed as cablevision but gaves us a dark fiber connection between the two buildings and lightpath only wanted to give us a 20/20 connection.

So as word gets out about long island fiber and other cheaper fiber companies lightpath will be in some serious trouble.

By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:50:44 +0000

Stacey, why did you feel it necessary to slip anti-ISP language into the lede of this article? Tiered pricing is not only perfectly reasonable but essential to ensure that revenues cover costs. (Our ISP has had bandwidth and pricing tiers from day one, because they are fair and rational.)