Lazlow
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Saint Louis, MO | Stimulate it? "Odlyzko suggests that ISPs should stop fearing traffic growth and work on ways to stimulate it."
Maybe I am missing the boat here, but why should the ISPs want to stimulate traffic growth? I understand (and agree with) his statement that they should not be afraid of growth(grow or die). |
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| said by Lazlow:"Odlyzko suggests that ISPs should stop fearing traffic growth and work on ways to stimulate it." Maybe I am missing the boat here, but why should the ISPs want to stimulate traffic growth? I understand (and agree with) his statement that they should not be afraid of growth(grow or die). The ISPs don't fear traffic growth, they're crying "BANDWIDTH APOCALYPSE!!" and spreading FUD to justify new ways to control and monetize the pipe you're paying for.
They are trying to get consumers, congress and regulators to believe there is a scarcity of bandwidth and they just can't handle the traffic (especially "bandwidth hogs") without some "network management" or caps and throttling.
there continues to be no publicly available data (that I have seen) that indicates there are major network congestion problems. |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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said by Lazlow: but why should the ISPs want to stimulate traffic growth? Why do you have a broadband connection and others have only dialup? Because you value high speed Internet access. It enables you do do things you cannot do on dialup.
ISPs ought to encourage use for two reasons. Competitive advantage and the more a customer uses the Internet the more willing they are to pay for higher speed.
ISPs are in the business of delivering the bits. It seem strange they are trying to vilify their most demanding customers that are using the Internet in creative new ways creating demand for ever higher speed connection.
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 WWMDivi filiusPremium
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said by nasadude:there continues to be no publicly available data (that I have seen) that indicates there are major network congestion problems. Here in Canada, Bell was recently required to prove network congestion was the reason that they started throttling p2p protocols by 95% during peak times. Not only did the numbers show there was no congestion, they actually showed a surplus of bandwidth. I'm actually surprised they released those numbers, as it completely killed their argument and credibility; but I guess they figured the folks on the CRTC wouldn't know any better. I'd bet that the status of other large DSL provider networks would be similar.
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