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Comcast Says There's 6 Million Unhappy DSL Users Left To Target (dslreports.com)
Karl Bode, writing for DSLReports: As we noted last week, cable is effectively demolishing phone companies when it comes to new broadband subscriber additions, and Comcast still says the company has plenty of room to grow. Comcast and Charter alone added 500,000 net broadband subscribers last quarter, while the nation's biggest telcos collectively lost 360,783 broadband users during the same period. With AT&T and Verizon backing away from unwanted DSL users, and Windstream Frontier and CenturyLink only eyeing piecemeal upgrades, the bloodshed is far from over. Speaking this week at the Nomura 2016 Media, Telecom & Internet Conference, Comcast VP Marcien Jenckes stated that the company has plenty of unhappy DSL customers left to nab. In fact, Comcast says the company still has around 6 million DSL subscribers in its territory, many of which are likely frustrated by outdated speeds.
10 times cheaper.
You likely meant one of the following:
1/10th as expensive.
90% less expensive.
Something that is "10 times cheaper" that something else that costs 1 dollar would itself cost negative 9 dollars.
It is 10 times (1 dollar) cheaper (than the 1 dollar item). 10 times 1 dollar is 10 dollars. Cheaper indicates a cost of fewer dollars, so we subtract 10 from 1 and get negative 9 dollars.
Alternatively, we can reserve this interpretation for "less expensive" and use "cheaper" as a bounded modifier, with direction self-contained, thus capping the result at 0 dollars on the low end. This would make any relative comparison past "1 time cheaper" useless, though it does make sense, just as deceleration means velocity stops at zero, while negative acceleration (similar to "less expensive") is unbounded.