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Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue Mar 13 14:48:02 2007

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:42:52 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <f13ed07b0703131140k6e6f3b3bie8b2314fbb3183a1@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 3/13/07, Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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

Bah!  Botched my own keystrokes there.

The reality is probably that the service is available, but the slow
motion of *infrastructure* network upgrades (where the CPE might not
even need a change in some cases) is holding back the rest of the
works.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>

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