JWilly
join:2000-06-02
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| Why go only to the countryside?
I'm surprised that a demo in a high-income urban setting with incomplete DSL coverage wouldn't be more economically interesting.
A considerable part of the relatively-high-household-income, low-housing-density Bloomfield Hills, Michigan area is outside of DSL range. Cable is an option, but its $60 pricepoint and shared-bandwidth performance offers more competitive-business-model room than the $40 pricepoint cited above for rural Texas... particularly with customers who are relatively capable of handling equipment charges because they have high-value homes and are accustomed to longer-timeline economic decisions.
The key in high-income urban settings, I think, will be to achieve high values of sustainable and highly reliable downpath bandwidth to all customers simultaneously--not for MP3s/porn/file-trading, but rather for upcoming commercial video content. |
