[133698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Dec 16 01:20:23 2010
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:20:14 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14CF92@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
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On 15/12/10 10:05 PM, George Bonser wrote:
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> If the customer pays the cost of the transport, a provider with better
> transport efficiency / quality ratio wins.
This (and everything that followed) assumes the customer has a choice of
providers. For most customers who already have Comcast, they don't have
any choice for similar broadband services (speeds). So open market
principles don't come into play, and Comcast knows it.
jc
