[95311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Wed Mar 14 15:35:59 2007
In-Reply-To: <03235919BBDE634289BB6A0758A20B360142F02A@NT-SJCA-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:34:27 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Bora Akyol wrote:
> Unfortunately, neither the telcos nor the cable companies quite get
> this. They are stuck to their "channels" and everything is priced in
> terms of channels.
To be fair, part of this onus is on the content developers themselves
- after all, it's easier to produce something and then have a channel
take care of distribution for you, rather than having to figure it
out for yourself. And of course, the channels don't want their
business going away, either. To top it all off, many SPs want to
become the 'channel' for their customers.
Just another example of how network effects tend to lead to
disintermediation, which is of course extremely disruptive to
traditional distribution models.
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