[80742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Jacob Muller)
Wed May 11 14:34:00 2005
In-Reply-To: <C20551D859616F44BA07225CDA9DF5A16AF255@dc-mail.onelegal.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Adam Jacob Muller <adam@gotlinux.us>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:33:00 -0400
To: Matt Bazan <Mbazan@onelegal.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
It's simple,
A DSL provider like speakeasy offers much more to a technical user
like myself than Comcast does, plus they have an incentive to keep me
happy, if i'm not i can leave and go with a competitor, comcast does,
and has on many occasions, simply told me to go f*ck myself when i
have service issues. (Sorry your modem died sir, the next we can get
a tech out to your place is 2 weeks, when i don't need a tech I know
what it means when a modem has a failure code).
The fact is, DSL is a competitive market, Cable is not, competitive
markets keep customers happy, monopolies anger people.
Adam
On May 11, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Matt Bazan wrote:
>
> why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private
> reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25?
> think you
> dsl resellers out there are doomed. in fact, just a matter of time
> before most of you isps are down the toilet. im reminded of the
> mom and
> pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,
> a&p, whole foods etc. of course there will always be niche markets
> but
> this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth. yeah, i
> suppose you'll say something about value added services and such
> and you
> may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long.
>
>
> !DSPAM:42824b1926542573616784!
>
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