| Price per meg? wtf Telcos are slow to change from the old means of billing customers for data, and yet have to embrace it or let cablecos and clecs eat their lunch with voip or more competitive services. Another way to look at it is if they both don't deliver what the consumer wants, they BOTH LOSE BILLIONS!!
Both telco and cablecos have huge warchests of money earned in the 80's and 90s' and are now having to invest in infrastructure upgrades and implementing poorly..
Backbone providers need to begin deploying internet-2 generation fiber links for backbone services. With video, the aggregate bandwidth needs are 5x to 200x current growth patterns. Single strands need to go from 2.4gbit to 50+gigabit with new wavelengths, modulation standards etc.
Data path extortion is not a good means to finance required upgrades, finding a model to deliver next-generation services people buy is much more likely to work. More likely to happen, more dark fiber links are gonna be lit as net traffic picks up in 2006. Seems like we've gone from a broadband shortage to surplus to shortage but not from usage, from extortion and greed ultimately raising the prices of guaranteed QOS bandwidth. |
