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Your Daddy
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 ·Verizon FIOS
| 40% bandwidth?
WTF kind of bandwidth is that? 2% of its users eating up 40%?
Sounds more like an infrastructure problem than a "hog" problem.
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nothing00
join:2001-06-10
Centereach, NY | Looks like they want to sell "internet access" as long as no one uses it...
Sort of like insurance huh?
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pkust
join:2001-08-09
Houston, TX
| Where's the value add?
What I found most striking about the referenced article was that all these industry bigwigs bring nothing new to the table. There are no new ideas, no new concepts to give high bandwidth something other than a commodity aspect.
All telecom has to offer, it seems, is more of the same. More bandwidth, more speed. Like the Red Queen in Through The Looking Glass, telecom is running faster and faster, only to remain steadfastly in place.
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Your Daddy
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join:2001-11-26
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·Verizon FIOS
| reply to nothing00
Re: 40% bandwidth?
Then they should advertise to old people. I never understood why no company did this. Give people the illusion that they need broadband and you'll make a killing.
Then again, support costs can make up for bandwidth costs, but hey you can outsource that!
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anomus
@rr.com
| You got Caps? Give them the boot!!
No need for squakin, just do like I do. Wed is my last day as Time Warner RR is pulling my plug for refuseing to pay for the 400gigs a month I DL. $89.95 plus overage over 40gigs. Next month Earthlink is going to reconnect my cable for an introductory $29.95/Mon for 6 months. Cool. And since its a contract, no overage supprizes for at least 6 months. All that leaves me to worry about is where to get more hard drive space.  Good riddens Time Warner, may you go bust. |
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Agent 86
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Re: Where's the value add?
I think they've figured out by now that blowing their money on Portals and Content and crap like that (remember Excite@Home?) is a losing strategy. |
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GerryB
join:2003-03-16
Manchester Township, NJ | reply to anomus
Re: You got Caps? Give them the boot!!
I hate greedy idiots like you. You do realize 400GB costs $200 per month if you buy it directly on the backbone.. |
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EFudd
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join:2001-09-08
Brownsville, OH
| I'm just curious, GerryB, if there happens to be a website with that cost around somewhere, or perhaps a hosting service website. The reason is, $200 for 400GB sounds really cheap when compared to $12 to $15 per 5GB some local Time Warner affiliates are charging.
I'd love to point TImeWarner to a website like that if they imposed that kind of pricing where I am.
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