[178661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Taylor)
Mon Mar 2 09:04:36 2015
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:04:32 -0600
From: Daniel Taylor <dtaylor@vocalabs.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 02/27/2015 04:49 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com> wrote:
>> "My point is that the option should be there, at the consumer level."
>>
>> Why? What's magical about symmetry? Is a customer better served by
>> having a 5mbps/5mbps over a 25mbps/5mbps?
> If the option sells, it will be offered. It didn't. We offer symmetric DLS residentially and it went over like a lead balloon.
>
>
Most people don't know what having a faster upstream would get them
(symmetrical or not). Heck, most people only know that they got the
cheapest connection with the fastest top-line bandwidth number because
marketers don't know how to sell upstream bandwidth (or don't care to).
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Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal Laboratories, Inc.
dtaylor@vocalabs.com http://www.vocalabs.com/ (612)235-5711
