[24341] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Death knell for residential non-cable access?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Muir)
Wed Jun 16 17:35:28 1999
Reply-To: <ron.muir@bellsouth.net>
From: "Ron Muir" <rmuir@bellsouth.net>
To: "Nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:33:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87256792.006E1911.00@d53mta03h.boulder.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The DSL charge from BellSouth is ~$60US reducing the CKb to $0.052US.
(That's at full rate)
Ron
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:From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
:trall@almaden.ibm.com
:Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 4:02 PM
:To: rmeyer@mhsc.com
:Cc: LIST NANOG
:Subject: Re: Death knell for residential non-cable access?
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:(I dropped domain-policy off of the distribution - this doesn't
:seem to have
:anything to do with that topic. And it may not be a good nanog
:topic either,
:but here I go anyway.)
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:> Type bit-rate Monthly CKb
:> modems 33.6Kbps ~$25US $0.74US note:$25 telco + $0
:ISP charges
:> modems 33.6Kbps ~$34US $1.01US note:$25 telco + $9
:ISP charges
:> Cable 1024Kbps ~$49US $0.04US
:> DSL 1148Kbps ~$600US $0.52US
:> T1 1540Kbps ~$2500US $1.62US
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:I think Roeland is ignoring a couple of pretty important issues to many
:customers:
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:1. Many folks are almost completely price-driven. A $25 service
:is preferred
:over a $49 service, regardless of capacity issues.
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:2. Some folks are very much part-time connectors. They use their
:normal voice
:line to talk to their ISP. They don't consider the cost of the
:line as part of
:the cost of the Ineternet connection. So their ISP service costs
:them 9 or 19
:dollars (or even 0, if we reach that point).
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:Tony Rall
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