[80767] 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 (Crist Clark)
Wed May 11 17:06:09 2005
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:05:13 -0700
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <1115837153.25577.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Wow! You can buy groceries at Kohls now? :-)
(1) Kohls is/was a regional (Wisconsin) grocery store chain[0].
(2) Please do not feed the trolls.
> 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pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,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.
[0] That's kind of a funny reference when you know what happened
to Kohls Foods. They were bought by A&P who subsequently closed or sold
off the individual stores. Kohls Foods suffered the "ma and pa"-like
fate described above.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
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