[80808] 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 (Ross Hosman)
Thu May 12 14:17:54 2005
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ross Hosman <rosshosman@yahoo.com>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>,
Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: 6667
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Not pointing any fingers but many of you think these
small ISP's are just going to die off instead of
adapt. Wireless is becoming a better and more reliable
technology that in the future will be able to provide
faster service then FTTH. I know of atleast one small
ISP in Michigan that went from dial-up to deploying
wireless. With WiMAX coming out I think you will see a
number of smaller ISPs switching to it as a service.
It is also much cheaper to deploy a wireless network.
Me personally, I think wireless is the future for
residential internet/tv/phone.
Ross Hosman
Charter Communcations
--- Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>
> Fred Heutte wrote:
> > (1) There will be a market for independent ISPs as
> long CLECs
>
> I think a more appropriate term would be ALEC
>
> (anti-competitive local exchange carrier)
>
> ...That having been said, the problem with the small
> guys providing access is
> they can't generally achieve the economies of scale
> that allow them to compete
> with the big guys.
>
> I'm on a Charter cablemodem, 3mbps down x 256kbps
> up, $39.95/month. Verizon is
> building out FTTH in this area and they're going to
> be offering 5x2 for $39.95
> or 10x5 for $49.95, IIRC. Those are all residential
> prices, but Charter's
> actually pretty competitive on business rates too.
>
> And yes, there are people who value service over
> price, but the price
> differential is only going to get worse.
>
>
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