[95265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue Mar 13 14:41:13 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:40:19 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0703131333300.8507@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/13/07, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> If many of US consumers were already buying the biggest pipe and were
> willing to pay even more for even higher speeds; would we be having
> this discussion? Or is the reality that US consumers are buying lower
> priced services even when bigger services are available.
The reality is probably more that
> Several US Providers are very happy to sell 1Gbps and even 10Gbps to
> anyone in major (i.e. NFL/top 30) cities, but not at $14.95/month.
Of course not; I wouldn't expect that. However, there are many
markets where even "small business broadband" -- rate-limited at
*exactly* the same numbers as consumer services -- are twice the price
as consumer services. I happen to live in one, and it's true of both
the major ADSL and cable carriers there.
A typical "small business" usage profile even puts that price past a
typical (bidirectional 95p, not rate-capped) Mbit/s cost of a real
fiber connection to a Tier-[123] type carrier. The only remaining
difference skewing away from direct connection is the cost of the
loop.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
