[133730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Thu Dec 16 13:20:41 2010
In-Reply-To: <4D0A4947.2060004@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:20:36 -0500
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I disagree. =A0Even at $1/Mbit and 6Tbit of traffic (they do more), that'=
s
> still $72M/year in revenue that they weren't recognizing before. =A0Given=
that
> that traffic was actually *costing* them money to absorb before, turning =
the
> balance and making that kind of money would be very favorably looked upon=
in
Yeah, because it makes a lot of sense to fuck with a billion dollar a
month revenue stream so you can extract a few million dollars more per
month from IP carriers. This definitely makes more sense than, say,
running the billion dollar a month side a little more efficiently.
You need to understand the scale of comcast's expenses and revenue on
the access and transport side of their business, in order to have a
remotely intelligent opinion about whether or not they are doing
anything smart with the peering/transit side, in these conditions.
If you really think it's a good idea to attract the attention of
government regulators, newspapers, customers, and every major ISP by
making a lot of noise over something that might allow you to make 0.5%
more money off a product where you could probably save an order of
magnitude more money through any number of ignored efficiencies within
the organization, I would love for you to post that. I suspect that
most folks who are of the opinion that Comcast is motivated by
anything but the three things I mentioned have not clearly considered
the proportionately small benefit they could gain from selling access
to their network at anything approaching a nominal fee. It must be
either 1) very high per-Mb price; 2) ego and stupidity; 3) greed of
such magnitude that it would make Gordon Gecko proud.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
