[133714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikel Waxler)
Thu Dec 16 10:56:38 2010
In-Reply-To: <4D0A3324.6040108@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:55:08 -0500
From: Mikel Waxler <dooser@gmail.com>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If ponies are being handed out, count me in.
Sure, market forces can do lots of strange things, for example, see our
current position.
Pretty much any scheme breaks terribly when there is a monopoly, since the
only company involved gets to remove the relationship between cost and
profit.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:41 AM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/12/10 7:17 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote:
>
>> I disagree with this theory.
>>
>> If customers pay comcast for bytes then eventually the upstream (L3) will
>> want some of that revenue.
>>
>
> And I want a pony.
>
> What the upstream "wants" and what market forces will decide could be very
> different. And as customers "want" lower internet access costs, if Comcast
> can collect more money from upstreams then they can lower the rates for
> customers, gain more customers, and be in an even better position to squeeze
> money out of upstreams.
>
> jc
>
>
>
