Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| ripe for municipal deployment... there has got to be some of this comcast / at&t footprint that both companies are trying to squeeze with caps that is ripe for 3rd choice competition (municipal, or otherwise)! they want to play hardball, fine... do it a the risk of 3rd choice deployment! whatever kinds of broadband caps / limits they're trying to impose to protect profit & return on investment goes against the grain of the wholesale costs of bandwidth exchange in peering agreements. most carriers have had the covers upended to show that for the most part, the wholesale broadband industry is a cost neutral prospect, meaning between peers they break even on the bandwidth costs roughly through creative arrangements. so, the main costs associated with internet are mostly last mile.
a negative side effect of both telcos & cablecos getting into each others' businesses is that trying to protect the content which they try to sell by subscription is a conflict of interest when opening the floodgates of ultra speed broadband (10 - 100mbit+plus). caps are a clear indication of the waning interest in cable-tv subscriptions. |
