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Vortex 2003 conference hints at battlelines
(old news - 10:47AM Monday May 26 2003)
tags: competition · business
Telco industry execs and equipment manufacturers huddled around the table for the Vortex 2003 technology conference. Among the gems of wisdom shared:
Verizon president Lawrence Babbio calling for the death penalty for MCI, Cox Communications claiming that 2 percent of Cox's Internet subscribers are gobbling up 40 percent of its bandwidth, and a Qualcomm exec saying the WiFi hype is just another dot-com craze.
Read more here.

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Archivis
Your Daddy
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join:2001-11-26
Earth
·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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permalink · 2003-05-26 12:03:44 · Reply to this

nothing00

join:2001-06-10
Centereach, NY

Re: 40% bandwidth?

Looks like they want to sell "internet access" as long as no one uses it...

Sort of like insurance huh?
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permalink · 2003-05-26 12:07:12 · Reply to this

Archivis
Your Daddy
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·Verizon FIOS

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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permalink · 2003-05-26 12:26:15 · Reply to this
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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permalink · 2003-05-26 12:17:13 · Print · Reply to this

Agent 86

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.
permalink · 2003-05-26 17:12:42 · Reply to this

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.
permalink · 2003-05-26 16:44:55 · Print · Reply to this
GerryB

join:2003-03-16
Manchester Township, NJ

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..
permalink · 2003-05-26 20:00:33 · Reply to this

EFudd
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join:2001-09-08
Brownsville, OH

Re: You got Caps? Give them the boot!!

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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permalink · 2003-05-27 06:58:27 · Reply to this
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