[170149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Mar 24 15:57:45 2014
In-Reply-To: <9578293AE169674F9A048B2BC9A081B4B54217B2@MUNPRDMBXA1.medline.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:57:21 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund@medline.com>wrote:
> [...]
> The economic reality is that if I build out an expensive infrastructure I
> have to pile on as many high priced services as possible to order to
> maximize the revenue from it. A customer who does not balk at a $200 a
> month TV/voice/Internet service is not going to be happy getting a bill of
> $50 a month for a fiber loop. The services are what the customer really
> wants and where you can add bells and whistle with little added expense.
> The infrastructure is the expensive part.
>
Oh good lord, if anyone could deliver a fiber loop to my property for
$50/month, I would prepay the next 20 years
right now to make it happen. Heck, I'd pay 10x that for a fiber loop to
the property, if I could have it cross
connected to the ISP of my choice at the far end.
I think you might underestimate what people would be willing to pay for
competitive infrastructure access to their property.
Conversely, I'd be happy to pay $5,000 in NRC installation charges
to get a fiber run to the property, with a correspondingly lower MRC.
Matt
