[80744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed May 11 14:47:03 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C20551D859616F44BA07225CDA9DF5A16AF255@dc-mail.onelegal.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:45:53 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Wow! You can buy groceries at Kohls now? :-)
-Jim P.
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:08 -0700, 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 pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,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.
