[80762] 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 (Shane Owens)
Wed May 11 16:19:06 2005
From: "Shane Owens" <shaneowens@dna-communications.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:15:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <42825803.40206@buckhorn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On this I am wondering what the user market would chose with an offer from a DSL provider of a guaranteed bandwidth purchase with a
contention based cap on max speed. For example DSL sold with a guaranteed bandwidth availability of 256K (or 512K, 768K etc based
on 256K increments) with a "up to" maximum of 7-10Mbps. Would the typical user understand the difference between this the standard
Comcast marketing of "up to" speeds without any service guarantee?
Shane
>It won't be long before the telco's respond by offering DSL at the same speed/price. I've heard (but don't *know*) that SBC is
selling 6 down and 1 up in >Houston and Dallas for $35.
>
>We're doing a fair business selling accelerated dial up for $15. Its surprising how many folks don't want broadband. You don't need
4mb down to read
>your email. And once you get outside of the city limits there's a good sized market that can't get any type of broadband,
especially cable.
>
>We may decline some, but I don't think that ISP's are going away anytime soon.
>
>Bob Martin
