[144265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Wed Sep 7 12:29:05 2011
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:28:28 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4E67958B.1080709@csuohio.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/7/11 09:02 , Michael Holstein wrote:
>
>> I would love a world where engineering was consulted by marketing :(
>>
>
> Wouldn't be a problem is management invested based on engineering's
> recommendations.
>
> There are few problems that money can't solve .. in this case, it's
> "sure, we can offer unlimited bandwidth, we just need to build (x) new
> towers at this map of locations, based on our usage patterns".
The way to achieve a return on invested capital is to attract and retain
customers who pay for a service which they find compelling.
> Michael Holstein
> Cleveland State University
>
>
