IP: Verizon's 39.95 DSL plan: now you see it, now you don't

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:26:56 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Timothy Barmann <tim@cybertalk.com>
>Subject: Verizon's 39.95 DSL plan: now you see it, now you don't
>
>Dave,
>
>Thought IPers might find interesting Verizon's new marketing initiative
>to hide its least expensive DSL plan.
>
>From:
>http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/business/05405182.htm
>
>
> >Verizon Communications has been charging $39.95 for its lowest price plan.
>But
> >this week, it quietly began steering customers away from that plan to more
>costly
> >ones that begin at $49.95 a month.
> >
> >Verizon no longer even lists its $39.95 plan on its Web site. Larry Plumb, a
> >company spokesman, said that even though it is not listed, the plan is
>still being
> >offered and the company is not phasing it out. Verizon simply isn't
>promoting the
> >cheaper plan anymore.
> >
> >How would a prospective customer even know about the plan then?
> >
> >"I suppose word of mouth," he said.
>
>
>
>--Timothy Barmann
>   Technology Writer
>   The Providence Journal
>   75 Fountain St.
>   Providence, RI 02902
>   401-277-7369
>   tim@cybertalk.com
>
>



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