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Re: and 100% of this survey is stupid said by sweintz: If every customer used 100% of their service 24/7/365, we wouldn't be paying $20/month for DSL or $40/month for cable. Initially, no. And I would have no issue with that. I got DSL not long after it first became available in my area. $50/mo was the low-end price and I wouldn't do it... Mindspring ran a promo for $40/mo and I jumped. I paid $40-50 for years and understood that early adopters pay more. Now I pay $17.99 for 2x the speed I had then.
It's no different than the dial-up days when there was a 20-25% rule on number of incoming phone lines vs number of customers. No, it IS different, beacuse people didn't leave dial up connections up all the time. Broadband, on the otherhand, IS left up all the time by most people. You took my analogy to literally. I was referring to the concept of what some call "oversubscribing". Fact is, I used a local ISP for a number of years and I was online daily, numerous times a day. In 3-4 years time, I honestly could count on one hand the number of times I got a busy signal. They used the 25% rule and it obviously worked excellent for them.
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