[76741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Dec 23 19:27:47 2004
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:27:21 +0000
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20041223.060228.3507.31856@webmail03.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> I think everyone has pretty much known that the
> international cable companies are basically cartels --
> leaking bandwidth into the market at a rate sufficient
> enough to keep prices artificially high enough to (at
> the very least) sustain fiscal margins.
>
> This has been going on for years.
I completely agree. In fact, I don't like the practice any more than the
next person on NANOG. I do, however, like the idea of sustainable growth.
I think they should, in the case of the Indian intercontinental
fibre fiasco, light up another fibre or two but I don't think lighting
them /all/ up right now is a smart move. I think there's really a nasty
balance issue and the people who will most complain are the poor
end users who end up with shoddy performance and unreliable uplinks.
(ObFun: Won't someone please think of the users!)
Adrian
--
Adrian Chadd "You don't have a TV? Then what's
<adrian@creative.net.au> all your furniture pointing at?"
