[101901] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Sun Jan 20 14:22:06 2008
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:07:07 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20080118134145.L21090@sprockets.gibbard.org>
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> My guess is the market will work this out. As soon as it's =
implemented,=20
> you'll see AT&T commercials in that town slamming cable and saying how =
DSL=20
> is "really unlimited".
If I were the DSL companies, I would consider advertising=20
with a commercial recalling the fable of the tortoise and
the hare. You see a starting line, the rabbit jumps out
early (8mb/s), and then crawls forward (64kb/s). The
turtle starts a little slower (3mb/s), but just keeps
going, beating the rabbit easily. =20
Gary
