Internet Service Options

Providers in the Crossville Area Plans and Prices

PPCUG19 July 2010

http://www.ppcuginc.com/

Purpose Background

What your service options are Awareness of provider options Information for making decision Prices do not reflect promotions Constantly changing Suggestions, ideas

What ?

ISP = Internet Service Provider DSL = Digital Subscriber Line Wi-Fi = Wireless Fidelity CATV = CAble TeleVision VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol 1000 Kilobytes = 8 Megabits, Mbps

Quantity - Speed

Internet Connection Options

Dial-up Satellite DSL Cable Wireless-Cell Hotspots

Options, Choices, Decisions

Location Speed Cost Reliability Promotion & Bundles are confusing and

hard to comprehend

Internet Connection Types

Dial-up connections-economical, minimal hardware, only need a phone line, slow, cannot get phone calls

DSL-splits phone line into data and phone, talk and surf at same time, always on, hardware cost

Cable- speed, always on, may not be available

Internet Options

Dial up NetZero AOL Copper.net PeoplePC VolFirst Earthlink Juno

High Speed Cable DSL Satellite Wireless Hotspots

Dial up ISP

Casual internet user Telephone tied up while on line Connected only when in use Many choices in providers National dial in numbers for travellers Your telephone company does not have

to be your ISP

Cheap(er) Dialup ISPs Earthlink: (931)210-6007 Crossville, unlimited

access, 8 emails, phone support, $150/year Juno Platinum: 2GB email storage, unlimited

access, $131.40/year Copper.net: (931)210-6001 Crossville,

$89.88/year, unlimited, support, 1 email PeoplePC: (931)210-6007 Crossville, 4 email,

$155.40/year AOL: (800)716-0023 only, $119.88/year,

unlimited, 1 email, limited support

Free Dial-Up Internet Option NetZero/Juno/United Online-10 hours/month,

multiple email addresses, local access numbers, easy signup, no obligation, not for Mac

(931) 210-6009 Crossville (931) 210-6004 Crossville

VolFirst

Unlimited dial up $17.95/month ($215/year), 8 email, 10 MB web space, 707-7458 & 707-7894

Q. Is Firewire Broadband available to everyone? A. Ideally, customers must be less than 12,000 feet or approximately three miles from their central office or remote serving terminal to qualify for Firewire Broadband service.

Plan prices range from $24.95 to $69.95/month

High Speed Option Providers Frontier Comcast Charter Spirit ATT Verizon Sprint HughesNet

Unbundled High Speed Options

Comcast: $64.95/month, 12Mbps down, 2Mbps up, 7 email, 10G web space

Frontier: $57.48/month, 2-year, wireless modem, 8 email, 3Mbps down, 384Kbps up, 25M web space

HughesNet: $69.98/month + $99.00 one time, 1Mbps up, 128Kbps down, 5 email

Comcast

Economy Internet Service: $24.95 1.5Mbps down, 384 Kbps up, must subscribe to CATV or voice

Performance: $42.95 12 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, must subscribe to CATV or voice

Performance Plus: $53.95 16 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, must subscribe to CATV or voice

Cheapest CATV plan is $29.95/month

Frontiernet

FrontierFast—up to 3 Mbps $49.99/mo +$4.50 equipment fee

Frontier dial up--$34.99/month + $4.50 modem

Frontier Internet Lite—up to 768Kbps $39.99

FTR stock pays 0.75/year dividend, 2/3rds owned by Verizon

Comcast & Frontier Internet only

Comcast: 6 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up $59.95 + $5.00, special 1st 6-months $29.99

Comcast: 8 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up $69.95 + $5.00, no commitment or termination fee

Frontier: 3Mbps down, 384 Kbps up $39.99 + $4.50, 12 month commitment

A T & T (931) 707 or 484

Unfortunately AT&T DSL Service is not available in your area.

We will continue to evaluate our AT&T DSL Service and remain committed to providing leading, next generation high speed Internet services for today's consumer customers.

Spirit Broadband

$32.95 for 1Mbps $37.95 for 3Mbps $42.95 for 6Mbps Service area ?, Reliability?, Support?

Charter Services

Lite: 1Mbps up, $19.99/month Express: 8Mbps up, $29.99/month Plus: 16Mbps up, $39.99/month Max: 25Mbps up, $54.99/month Ultra: 60Mbps up, $99.99/month

Mobile Internet

ATT: $60.00/month for 5GB + $0.05/MB over, 2-year, 3Mbps down,

Verizon: $59.99/month for 5GB + $0.05/MB over, 1Mbps down, 600Kbps up

Sprint: $59.00/month for 5GB; "It's fast enough that you could replace your DSL or Cable internet service with Sprint Mobile Broadband. It's that fast.."

AT&T Plans new 7 June DataPlus—200Mb of data; $15/month DataPro—2 Gb of data: $25/mo. + 1Gb/$10. Tethering—DataPro + $20/month

Free Wi-Fi at 20,000 hot spots in US

Examples Application Approximate Size E-mail (1 text page without attachments) 3 KBWord Document (5 text pages) 70 KB Typical Web Page 300 KB Low Resolution Digital Photo 500 KB PowerPoint Presentation (20 pages text & light graphics) 3 MB

1Graphically intense pages or pages with video can exceed 3MB.

Verizon options for Unlimited Data: These data packages are additional to voice plan.

Monthly Mbyte Allowance Monthly Charge Per MB rate after allowance

0 MB $0.00 $1.9925 MB $9.99 $0.20Unlimited $29.99

Data package of $9.99 or higher are required for 3G Multimedia phones, and Data Packages of $29.99 or higher are required for 3G Smartphones

Sprint 3G Network

3Mbps peak-600Kbps to 1.4 Mbps average

5GB in up & down $59.99/month No 4G here

Wi-Fi Hotspots

Village Green shopping mall Fairfield McDonald's, Arby's, Subway Art Circle Public Library Day's Inn Plateau Travel Plaza Cumberland Medical Center Here

magicJack

Transfer current land line phone number in August

Computer must be on with active Internet service, but voicemail & call forwarding will work with computer off

$39.95 plus S&H, then $19.95/year local and long distance

Not for dial up or satellite internet

Consider a Free email account

Gmail—Google AIM Mail—AOL GMX Mail Yahoo! Mail Gawab.com Inbox.com Windows Live Hotmail

Opinions

Wean yourself from your ISP's email- Casual user with laptop: dial-up with

accelerators and hotspots Comcast Performance service w/TV

$73/mo Give VoIP a try Take advantage of Specials/Promotions

even from you current provider