[144271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Wed Sep 7 12:46:30 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E679BAC.4090206@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:46:01 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> 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.
Good simplification, but i think this thread is about the word "pay"
.... who and how much.
