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Convergence (was RE: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users")

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Higgs)
Mon Feb 4 00:01:52 2002

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At 07:52 PM 1/31/02 -0800, JC Dill wrote:

>What the average broadband customer WANTS is:

Convergence.

That is, any type of media communications transmission (phone, TV, net, 
etc.) with symmetrical bandwidth. Anything less is a third-party controlled 
"channel" being pushed onto the consumer (phones have symmetrical bandwidth).



Best Regards,

Simon

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