[87339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Dec 14 19:54:12 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512141744330.9370@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:53:36 -0800
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> The telephone companies are asking for the same ability to sell
> multiple
> services over the same physical line. Cable companies didn't make
> their
> Internet service slower when they add more private services, why do
> people expect the telephone companies to make their Internet service
> worse when the telephone companies add private services to their
> network?
Because they're telephone companies.
Because they can't manufacture bandwidth that isn't there. Cable
co's provide
broadband with a fraction of the loop capacity. For telco's to offer
premium
service, they have to take from the aggregate capacity. It's a zero
sum game,
and for the telco's to get more, the subscribers get less.
Tony
