[99881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Johnson)
Mon Oct 8 11:39:13 2007
From: "Andy Johnson" <andyjohnson@ij.net>
To: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
Cc: "nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:38:03 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: "Daniel Senie" <dts@senie.com>
> Verizon, it's particularly sad, charges $19.95/month for dialup
> that'll also tie up a POTS line, where it'll offer the lowest DSL
> speeds at $14.95. And Verizon "cherry picks" the places where it
> offers DSL (and moreso for FiOS) so the affluent towns get high speed
> service, while the rural and poorer places only have available dialup
> (and that dialup is more expensive).
In my experience, the support cost of DSL is significantly cheaper than
dial-up in terms of helpdesk calls. DSL/Cable/FiOS is typically a plug and
play, where as dialup can be quite a bit more troublesome, involving more
tech time in the long run.
