Future pricing

[BuckRogers]

Those people in the industry - what is the expected pricing trend for fibre.
Will it keep pace with inflation or drop as penetration increases ?

 

[The_MAC]

Those people in the industry - what is the expected pricing trend for fibre.
Will it keep pace with inflation or drop as penetration increases ?

I suspect that Fibre, as in the infrastructure will eventually be irrelevant in terms of pricing, it will be like power lines and water pipes, basically a utility enabler.

The differentiator will be the quality of service, data caps and all the other value adds, not to mention any partnerships that the ISP's will form with Video On Demand providers and the likes.

So essentially, either the price will drop, or the price stays the same but the value increases (I think the latter will happen as they have to maintain a certain amount of minimum revenue per user)

 

[PBCool]

Those people in the industry - what is the expected pricing trend for fibre.
Will it keep pace with inflation or drop as penetration increases ?

If an operator is looking to break even after around 5 years, I would suspect this is when you would start seeing decreases in fees. ISPs portion of the fees is actually very small.

 

[BuckRogers]

Thanks for the responses. I am just cautious. ADSL cost per gig has been dropping steadily. I'd be disappointed giving up an ever increasing ADSL offering for fibre if those prices are going to be growing like my municipal account.