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Broadband to Get the WalMart Treatment

Posted in Random by Dan at 12:26 pm
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Walmart has entered the broadband business. With a partnership with satellite provider Hughes Communications, Walmart will resell bandwidth at a discounted rate at 800 of its stores stores starting today.

With average prices rising to $44 recently from $42 two years Walmart hopes their new strategy will push the prices lower again.

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2 Responses to “Broadband to Get the WalMart Treatment”

  1. Jon says:

    Is it me, or is $15 a month DSL better than satellite still?

  2. Rager says:

    I’d rather pay $50/month for DSL than $15/month for satellite. Satellite has the most marvelously huge latencies known to networking kind.

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