| More reasonable approach. I'm normally not a fan of Comcast, but this is a reasonable approach, unlike most of their competitors (baby bells, other telcos, and cable alike). I thought it was interesting that other tech newsletters are beginning to report on Cogent's most recent quarterly data, which shows that bandwidth consumption is falling, not increasing. I really believe those bandwidth providers--who all seem to be competing for additional dollars through content and other online services too--that plan on implementing very low caps as a means of implementing stealthy fee increases that don't need to be run past state or local regulators will suffer a contraction of their consumer base. Their fees are generally high now and with the stealthy increases they're planning on adding, their fees will be very, very unreasonable. Since inflation is likely to keep increasing at steady pace (wholesale numbers released recently don't bode well for consumer price increases as we enter heating season) more people are going to be hard-pressed to keep up spending on non-essential services, like broadband. If you're a broadband exec who's earning a ridiculously high salary and disconnected from the reality of your average customer/consumer, you're about to learn the hard way that your company's services aren't essential and that when you gouge in economic hard times, you'll lose customers. |
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| Well stated!
"Vote" with your wallet, it's what business understands. |
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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said by voipdabbler:I thought it was interesting that other tech newsletters are beginning to report on Cogent's most recent quarterly data, which shows that bandwidth consumption is falling, not increasing. Cogent also had a fair number of customers elect to not renew their contracts largely due to the recent Cogent/Telia depeering incident.
They took a similar hit when they depeered with Level(3) a few years back. |
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| said by espaeth:said by voipdabbler:I thought it was interesting that other tech newsletters are beginning to report on Cogent's most recent quarterly data, which shows that bandwidth consumption is falling, not increasing. Cogent also had a fair number of customers elect to not renew their contracts largely due to the recent Cogent/Telia depeering incident. They took a similar hit when they depeered with Level(3) a few years back. Actually, I believe that the depeering incident with Level 3, three years ago, began with Level 3 depeering Cogent first. Then Cogent fired back. They were both forced to make nice or else in the fall of 2005.
Cogent has met resistance with it's efforts to enter the European market--European carriers depeered when Cogent bought in to the market, which has complicated their efforts since they have to route traffic back to the US and then back to Europe. |
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