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Re: 8 GB per day said by fiberguy:Everyone is trying all they can to do an online business which is often cheaper to them to operate with out all the brick and mortar costs.. so, if you think about it, the ISPs are being expected to handle the load, see no increased revenue for it, and what do they get in return? bitching? No wonder why they love you in return. While the online vendors have lower costs than BandM businesses do, there is still going to be a shift in expenses.. the ISPs are the ones that have to absorb them. While the internet may be assumed to be getting cheaper, the cost to keep up with everyone tossing something on the net, in hopes to defer costs or save money, it just throws the burden elsewhere. And this trend just started? No. The Internet has been growing all along, from about only 250 hosts to 570 million.
The Internet *IS* getting less expensive, or more capable, or a little of both. That's simply life in technology.
What is a real pressure is that the number of new prospective Internet customers in the current footprints are drying up, yet investors still expect double-digit returns. (And since the FCC won't let Comcast buy any more growth, it's options are even more limited.) For more revenue, they need to invest.
ISPs are going to have to try and figure out how to extend their systems farther out to reach more people or sell more services. (And some are -- aren't they? Didn't several of them, including Comcast, just buy into a bunch of radio spectrum? And Cox is putting their own Geek Squad to the test.)
I do remember when my mom and dad lived on Dead Cow Corner near Phoenix that they couldn't convince Cox to pull the cable another 50 feet to reach her corner house an a row of 5-6 homes that followed it. They lived there for about 10 years, and the neighbors even longer.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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