jlsamsel
join:2006-08-26
Stixville | BB market slowing down
...or they could offer BB to areas they've overlooked in the past.
Please?
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Now you're just talking crazy talk.... |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Comcast
|  9 out of top 19 account for lions share of broadband
5 Cable companies
Comcast
Time Warner
Cox
Charter
Cablevision
and 4 Telcos
AT&T
Verizon
Qwest
Embarq
pretty much own broadband in the US.
An interesting question is what does the report consider broadband. The news release doesn't really say and you have to pay to see the actual report and the assumptions. Do they include all the cellphone broadband numbers in their stats?
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: |  Fine.
If the BB market is slowing down WHY are caps then?
Bells and cable both push internet to the point of caps.
At that rate whats the use of BB again? SH** might go back to dial up then. |
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dmeyer
join:2002-08-14
Austin, TX
| Oh, stop being so melodramatic. Why are people here always bitching about caps? If you read the fine print there is no such thing as unlimited. On dial up it would take you 10 years to transfer the amount of data the cable companies let you transfer in one day. I wish people would quit whining about caps, 99% of these people don't have a legitimate need to transfer so much data in a monthly period. Be happy that they aren't charging you for overage. If the demand is there for legitimate purposes, the caps will go away or be increased as the companies can add backbone capacity. Have you seen how expensive CMTSes are? |
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i1me2ao
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join:2001-03-03
TEXAS
·Comcast
| people whine about caps because commercials either say specifically unlimited or imply unlimited. for example you can share video with all your family etc etc.
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greendragon
Premium
join:2003-09-20
Stewartville, MN | Charter gained me this quarter....
Then lost me with in two months...
I got qwest instead.
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darkcrucible
join:2007-06-07
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Re: Fine.
This is feeling like a stupid post already but whatever.
Assuming a saturated 56k connection for 10 years, you would get: 2.605E+12 bytes. With a saturated 10mbit connection for one day, you'd get 1.3246E+11. In order to achieve tens years worth of 56k downloads, you'd have to leave your 10mbit connection on for approximately 20 days (assuming my calculations aren't completely incorrect). If you wanted to download 10 years worth of a 56k connection in one day, you'd need approximately a 25mbit/s connection.
note: for some reason I used 56k connection to mean 56*1024 bits/s and 10mbit to mean 10485760 bits/s. Also, I do not take into account any sort of overhead. And yes, these simple calculations amuse me. |
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Stumbles
join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL
| reply to dmeyer
Ah... another knucklehead deciding for me what I can do with my connection and using the redherring "legitimate" as an excuse.
I wish knuckleheads would stop whining about those who whine about caps.
BTW, from which orifice did you pull that 99% because it stinks. |
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shoan1
@swbell.net | reply to jlsamsel
Re: BB market slowing down
agree totally They are going to have to get a ladder and start reaching for the fruit that can not be picked from the ground on the tree of new customers. |
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Stumbles
join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL | reply to i1me2ao
Re: Fine.
Yep and that's precisely what the whiners that whine about those who whine about caps don't want to discus. The ISPs ENCOURAGES you via marketing koolade to use applications that are KNOWN to consume large amounts of bandwidth. |
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