[133810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Fri Dec 17 12:09:20 2010
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:08:36 -0800
From: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14CFE6@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: Steve Schultze <sjs@Princeton.EDU>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
George Bonser wrote:
>> They do already. It's called HBO, Showtime, HDNet Sports, etc. -
>>
> they
>
>> get charged per eyeball for those networks, and so they pass the
>>
> charge
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>> on per eyeball to the customer.
>>
>> Nothing is new here.
>>
>
> The municipality charges the cable company per HBO subscriber?
>
>
>
The municipality gets a cut of that in a profit sharing agreement. The
point was, everyone gets their tax or toll along the way.
-Dave
