[94229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gian Constantine)
Sat Jan 13 17:02:39 2007
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Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:59:59 -0500
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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The cable companies have been chomping at the bit for unbundled
channels for years, so have consumers. The content providers will
never let it happen. Their claim is the popular channels support the
diversity of not-so-popular channels. Apparently, production costs
are high all around (not surprising) and most channels do not support
themselves entirely.
The MSOs have had a la carte on their Santa wish list for years and
the content providers do not believe in Santa Claus. :-) They believe
in Benjamin Franklin...lots and lots of Benjamin Franklin.
Gian Anthony Constantine
Senior Network Design Engineer
Earthlink, Inc.
On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> In the USA at least, the cable companies make you pay for "bundles"
> to get channels you want. I have to pay for
> 3 bundles to get 2 channels we actually want to watch. (One of
> these bundle is apparently only sold if you are already getting
> another, which we don't actually care about.) So, it actually costs
> us $ 40 + / month to get the two channels we want (plus a bunch we
> don't.) So, it occurs to me that there is a business selling solo
> channels on the Internet, as is, with the ads, for order $ 5 - $ 10
> per subscriber per month, which should leave a substantial profit
> after the payments to the networks and bandwidth costs.
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chomping at the bit for unbundled channels for years, so have consumers. =
The content providers will never let it happen. Their claim is the =
popular channels support the diversity of not-so-popular channels. =
Apparently, production costs are high all around (not surprising) and =
most channels do not support themselves entirely.<DIV><BR =
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Engineer</DIV><DIV>Earthlink, =
Inc.</DIV></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:14 AM, =
Marshall Eubanks wrote:</DIV><BR =
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size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">In the USA at least, the =
cable companies make you pay for "bundles" to get channels you want. I =
have to pay for</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px =
0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px =
Helvetica">3 bundles to get 2 channels we actually want to watch. (One =
of these bundle is apparently only sold if you are already getting =
another, which we don't actually care about.) So, it actually costs us $ =
40 + / month to get the two channels we want (plus a bunch we don't.) =
So, it occurs to me that there is a business selling solo channels on =
the Internet, as is, with the ads, for order $ 5 - $ 10 per subscriber =
per month, which should leave a substantial profit after the payments to =
the networks and bandwidth costs.</FONT></P> =
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