Telekom: The Alternative Is to Raise Prices

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Telekom on its idiotic new contracts:

The alternative would have been to raise prices across the board for all customers.

Yes, please, raise the prices.

Given the profits they’ve announced, that’s probably a lie, but I’m happy to play along. I’m glad to pay for good service. Anyone battered by Alice/1&1/o2/Vodafone will agree: a cheap contract often means cheap support, cheap hardware, and frayed nerves. Telekom isn’t always golden either, but technically its network is actually excellent, in my opinion.

But if you raise prices, you’d better bring fibre to the last remote farmhouse, right? Where’s the network expansion? Where’s the investment in putting a DSLAM in every village?

This is a lie anyway. Of course you want to push your Entertain/Videoload/Spotify junk. Liars. Why is YouTube unusably slow in Berlin? Because you want to charge Google instead of peering with them.

Repeat after me, Telekom: You are and will remain a cable. It may not fit your world-domination plan, but that’s what you are.

If €20 won’t buy a flat rate, call it 75 GB at Congstar. And charge €30 for golden Telekom DSL. Or €40, or €50.

What’s the “real” price?

VDSL 50/10 with Entertain cost private customers about €65.

A 50/10 business connection without Entertain, forced disconnections, or a fixed IP costs about €90. Offer that to private customers. 50% more revenue, no bullshit, everyone happy.