[7363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet vs. Telephone company vs. cable company
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Fri Jan 31 20:31:08 1997
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: torzillo@cac.washington.edu (Tony Torzillo)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:24:33 +73700 (MST)
Cc: davids@wiznet.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.95.970131164708.1192M-100000@shiva1.cac.washington.edu> from "Tony Torzillo" at Jan 31, 97 04:57:31 pm
> I've wondered if the recent advent of cable modems could change our entire
> Internet/telecommunications strategy. Provided that the cable network
> becomes widely available, more internet users would shift from using
> telephone lines for access to cable lines. Couple that with the use of
> the internet phone, and the phone line would only be necessary for
> communicating with non-internauts. I can see a number of ramifications
> for this - companies making money from long distance usage would be rather
> upset - and backbone providers would have to upgrade existing circuits to
> handle the increase in traffic. Anyone have thoughts/comments in regard to
> this as well?
"Yeah, sure.. we can give you high bandwidth to your home. Oh, and did
I forget to mention that you get to share it with 10,000 of your
closest friends?"
Cable modems don't impress me..
-Wayne
