Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
| Re: Tell me it isn't so Well the error here is the college town part. I've lived in college towns, and it's not a place I'd want to service a broadband network.
College students use a LOT of bandwidth. They also don't always pay the bills.
Comcast & Qwest come in and offer $100 triple play deals (for probably 8mbps cable and even slower DSL).
These muni broadband providers have to match that (except they are 15mps) and then if the customer starts using P2P (ie torrents) and actually *using* that 15mbit god forbid then they could really lose $$ on that customer. And lets not get started on the 50mbit customers - if you were paying for 50mbit broadband would you like it if your provider told you "no sorry can't use it" for certain things? |
