Chaser West knows exactly how much all those services cost. But, to be fair, we cribbed it from Om Malik (who cribbed it from Reuters):
According to Wall Street estimates, the average monthly cost of an entry-level voice, video and data package from a Baby Bell is about $115 per month, compared with about $130 for similar packages from cable companies, albeit with faster data speeds. Those prices have remained steady even as more cable companies enter the phone market.
There really are some questions to ask about democracy and equal access when a pretty normal media package runs you more than $100 a month, Chasers.
That’s why new broadband technologies — see below — are potentially so important. Barring some exceptions, DSL and cable Internet providers haven’t exactly been in a price war lately. So maybe the key to broader, cheaper access isn’t more of the same… but instead new technologies and new options.
