 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | My prediction is... if you think things are bad now..wait until docsis 3.0 arrives bigtime next year.
If Comcast plays their cards right and makes those 50Mb speeds part of something like the top tier bundle (159 bundle)..
there won't be a telco landline or dsl customer left in the United States!
They could single handedly change the entire speed landscape in this country.
The only one who could pose a challenge to that would be Verizon and their fios service. But there's no way they can get enough territory wired in time. Or as fast as docsis 3.0 can roll out.
IMHO.this is the real danger to the telco's. And their losses this quarter might be a drop in the bucket compared to that.
Is this comcasts plan?
I guess we'll just have to see but I sure wouldn't be surprised.
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| Yes, but you'll have a 100GB cap on your 50MB connection, so if you're very lucky, you'll get about 4 hours a month out of it. For the rest of the time, you'll just use uncapped DSL. Honestly, I don't care WHAT the cap is. I'm paying for the SPEED, not the usage. I'd much rather pay for 3/768 with no limits than pay less for a 16/1 with a 250GB cap. Hell, with a 3MB line you can download about 900GB/month. At comcrap rates, that would set you back the base $60.00 + $975.00 in overage charges. I could get by on 900GB/month, but I sure as hell am not going to pay $1000.00 for the 'privilege' of being raped by comcrap.
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | You forget that WHILE DSL providers are going with no caps NOW, it certainly won't be that way for long when everyone starts playing 'follow the leader' as it seems to be heading towards lately.
Give it time. The likes of at&t, verizon, pacbell, etal will soon all be going towards caps if the market doesn't change the current path down the road towards anemic caps for ALL ISPs.
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to Rick
said by Rick:The only one who could pose a challenge to that would be Verizon and their fios service. But there's no way they can get enough territory wired in time. Or as fast as docsis 3.0 can roll out. Now when they do that, are they going to have to replace all the DOCSIS 3 modems with new DOCSIS 3 modems when CableLabs gets the upstream certifications done? Is that what is causing this upgrade lull between Minneapolis and the rest of Comcast's network?
And why the hell is it $159 anyway? I'm a definite geek and I wouldn't buy that if it was offered here.
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| They're just hoping that everyone forgets they said they'd have 20% of their markets on 3.0 by years end. |
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RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
1 edit | said by bogey780:They're just hoping that everyone forgets they said they'd have 20% of their markets on 3.0 by years end. They are going to have to move pretty quickly if they hope to hit that.
And, to funchords..yes..people will need new modems. And I also agree that 150/mo. (standalone price) is too much and won't be a very popular tier at that price. Which of course is why I'm rampantly speculating that they'll make it part of the 159 triple play bundle instead so everyone can get in on the action.  |
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 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
join:2005-03-14
Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | reply to Rick
Alot of people don't need the higher tiers. Especially at $150/month with I think is ridiculous. I think a good portion of the userbase would be happy with 20 down and 2 or 3 up at a reasonable price. |
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funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | You're right, but having the new capability is important. Innovators won't even begin working on applications that might require that type of bandwidth until someone makes it available to enough people.
That's why it's also important for Cable Internet providers to make it clear whether that 50 Mbps is truly bandwidth or merely "speed." (Future Cable Internet is not the only example -- take Slingbox's Slingplayer -- a wonderful application until mobile providers suddenly started to complain that the unlimited bandwidth they were offering wasn't really "unlimited" after all.)
The Internet has always been a "build it and they will come" kind of place. But it doesn't work the other way around.
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