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Report – Broadband Broadband Internet has been seen by many, as an opportunity not fully being utilised. The four P’s of marketing broadband have failed based on the new technology not meeting its projected sales. The price, product, place, and promotion of broadband have all come under scrutiny somewhere along the way. Many of the articles collected have one way or another shown the flaws on the current system and the measures (or lack of) that have been put in place to correct the problems. The 1st problem that becomes apparent is the price of broadband. Most people have found that the price difference between dial up and broadband is too great for the extra functionality that they will get. Although this was at first quite true, with broadband cable costing between $40 to $60(US), company’s soon realised that not every broadband user is the same just like dial up customers and hence the adoption of tiered pricing came about. This was a particularly interesting concept though since some people argued that broadband was about fast access to greater amounts of data, and by putting restrictions on plans, this would result in reduced functionality and higher prices for top end users. Whilst on the other end of t