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Grammie61
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6 years ago

Free service for students whose schools are clised

Hughes need to follow suit with other Internet companies and not charge customers with children who are having to school at home because of the Norovirus. It should be free and unlimited to all studen...
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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
6 years ago

I can see families of those who have school kids home now getting it for free or at a reduced price if the government subsidizes it, but HughesNet is too small of a company to do that on their own without the real possibility of creating a financially untenable situation.  Unlike the large companies, they don't have the billions and billions of profit to dip into in order to cover the lost income.

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    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    6 years ago
    maratsade wrote:

    FedCC news:

    Internet Providers Won’t Cut Off Users Over Unpaid Bills for 60 Days
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/business/internet-providers-coronavirus.html

    Very interesting.  The problem with this is that some people who don't truly need to miss paying their bill would do so anyway.  Those bigger companies could take that hit.  

     

    I wonder if HughesNet will follow suit in some form.

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      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      6 years ago

      I imagine there will be negative consequences, unfortunately. 

       

      GabeU wrote:
      Very interesting.  The problem with this is that some people who don't truly need to miss paying their bill would do so anyway.  Those bigger companies could take that hit.  I wonder if HughesNet will follow suit in some form.