Saturday, August 20, 2005

Los Angeles DS3 Prices

Are you searching for a Los Angeles DS3 Price? Bandwidth has never been cheaper and Los Angeles is no exception to this. Many telecom companies built out their infrastructure in Metro cities and with the crash that has taken place since 1999 many of these companies have seen the usage of their pipes decrease significantly. The infrastructure that was laid is a fixed cost that companies are eager to recover. The result of the reduced number of businesses in the market seeking service and the drop in pricing has created a buyers market.

In a buyers market remember that you can push and probably get concessions from the DS3 carrier but also remember that all carriers are not created equally. Many carriers may appear to offer a bargain price but you may be several hops from the internet and have a problem with latency. You may also be using a small carrier that hasn't actually checked the capacity of the CO before you sign your contract and can't even deliver the service they promised. The only way you'll discover this is when you start using your connection and find that at peak traffic times your connection is bogged down at a level below that which was guaranteed.

We suggest when dealing with a larger pipe you consider the larger Tier 1 providers. You can still get a great price even though it's not as low as some of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 companies. You'll also have the peace of mind knowing that you have an SLA and the company will deliver what you believe you will get. If you're in the market for a DS3 line, communications are vital to your company. Make sure you get both a reliable product and the price you're looking for. If you need help finding such a service, consider speaking with the professionals at ShopForDS3.net

Saturday, August 13, 2005

T1 Bandwidth Provider Low Price Guarantee

August 2005 Bandwidth Special Deal: A Tier-1 Carrier is offering Full T1 line in Houston, Texas including router and zero installation cost for $400 per month on a 1, 2 or 3 year contract!

In brief, ShopForT1.net is an agent for about a dozen of the nation's Top Tier (Tier 1) and First Tier carriers. Read that again -- we are an agent for them, which is different from a VAR or a reseller. A VAR or a reseller frequently marks up the prices that are given to them by the carriers, or gets their commission from the customer. ShopForT1.net is very different from that model -- these carriers already guarantee that the prices offered to ShopForT1.net customers are the LOWEST price that that carrier will offer for that circuit at that location. This is the basis of our Low Price Guarantee -- if a customer gets a lower price from one of our carriers for the same circuit on the same terms, we do two things: (1) we match that price, and (2) we pay 20% of the customer's first month's bill, up to $500. That is a powerful guarantee and we put it in writing with every proposal that is sent to a customer.

Many customers I've talked with wanted "verification" of that; i.e., "you mean with a couple of mouse clicks, my address and phone number, I am simultaneously shopping amongst about a dozen top carriers that can provide service to my area, and you guarantee that those are the best prices those carriers will offer for that circuit?"

Our Low Price Guarantee: If you find cheaper price anywhere else we'll match that price and pay YOU up to $500 cash back when you buy through ShopForT1.net!

ShopForT1.net guarantees that our discounted service plans will not be beaten by anyone - not by our vendors direct and not by competitors who resell these same vendors.

Special Note: T1 Carriers are offering some great deals on bandwidth circuits thanks to "sweet spot" cities and "zero mile loop" locations in and around the metro areas. T1 Business Phone, T1 Phone System, T1 High-Speed Internet, T1 Data, T1 Voice, T1 Voice & Data, Integrated T1 and Fractional T1 services are especially price competitve right now and in the following locations:

Alabama: Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery,
Arkansas: Little Rock
Arizona: Phoenix, Tucson
California: Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose
Colorado: Colorado Springs, Denver,
Florida: Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa
Georgia: Atlanta, Columbus
Illinois: Chicago
Indiana: Indianapolis
Kentucky: Louisville
Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Lafayette, New Orleans,
Maryland: Baltimore
Massachusetts: Boston
Michigan: Detroit
Missouri: Kansas City,
New Jersey: Newark
New York: New York
Kansas: Kansas City
North Carolina: Greensboro, Winston-Salem
New Mexico: Albuquerque
Nevada: Las Vegas
Oklahoma: Tulsa
Oregon: Portland
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
South Carolina: Columbia, Greenville
Tennessee: Memphis, Nashville
Texas: Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, Irvine
Utah: Salt Lake City
Metro Northern Virginia: Vienna
Washington, DC
Washington: Seattle


T1 carriers offer superb pricing on intrastate point-to-point circuits. This is a T1 that does not touch the Internet, but simply connects point A to point B. There are many industries that use point to point circuits -- probably one of the most prominent examples is banks. The bank branch office is connected to the bank headquarters office via a point-to-point circuit to transmit customer information to/from the headquarters, and since it does not go through the Internet, the customer's financial information is much more secure. Also consider hospitals communicating with their clinics spread around the city or state, transmitting a patient's medical information to/from the main hospital. Such circuits can be offered in any state, but the states AZ, CO, CA, FL, UT, OR, TX, and WA are "blanket states" meaning that the price is the same for the circuit from ANY point in the state to any other point in that state. For example, a price of this point-to-point T1 is the same price whether it is from one side of the street to the other in Tallahassee FL (maybe 150 feet), or from Tallahassee FL to Miami FL (more like 350 miles)!