[53040] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Mon Oct 28 12:40:03 2002
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:39:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10210281102040.12430-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Wow! They just don't count subscribers:).
I realize one way makes more sense from a "we've got more subscribers than
you do sense" but it wouldn't be that hard to count real subscribers one
wouldn't think.
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > > In a public press release dated August, they claim to have
> > > 1.8 million Internet customers. How that compares to the
> > > global pool of cable users, I cannot say.
> >
> > One cable company I've done business here (Ontario, Canada) has over
> > 500K subscribers, and I don't believe it has the largest number of cable
> > modems in the country. So you're probably talking around 1.5-2 million
> > cable modems north of the border. Then you have Europe (I think .nl has
> > decent cable modem penetration), Asia-Pacific, etc.
>
> Very cute. It is clear that the posters forgot how cable industry "counts"
> subscribers. The details came out during Adelphia bankruptcy. Since that
> time every cable co basically said "yep, that's how we do it too".
>
> Here's counting subscribers the cable industry way:
>
> They take a total revenue that's somehow gets associated with selling cable
> and divide it by the price of the basic cable. The resulting number is the
> number of subscribers that they claim to have.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
