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mach
join:2001-11-24
Flushing, NY | reply to EPS
Re: Common Sense 101 Time Warner's Road Runner doesn't utilize ATDN or Time Warner Telecom (which is not a tier1 since it pays for peering with Sprint.) My guess is that they do that so its easy to sell each company if ever needed... Other than that I can't think of any other reason why Road Runner doesn't exclusively utilize ATDN and Time Warner Telecom. Road Runner could definitely offer no caps service if they did. But instead Road Runner pays for bandwidth from various providers.
About Sprint, well they offer different type service like you mentioned. Sprint has caps on their cellular broadband, which most likely has some sort of technical limitations at the cell towers of how much bandwidth they can carry. If Sprint was to roll out FIOS like service, I'm 99% sure it would have no caps either.
And AT&T is just a greedy dumb company so :P Or really smart, depends how you look at it really :P
The bottom line is that its easy for tier1 to offer no cap service. It could possibly even make them more money, the more their users use. And it becomes costlier and costlier for non tier1 ISPs to offer unlimited bandwidth as users use more and more, since they pay for it.
Anyway, that's just how I see all of this, I could be wrong. | |
EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Oh, I agree with you that it's easier for them to offer no-cap service because of their bandwidth situation relative to cableco competitors.
at&t is a greedy company, yes. But all companies are greedy... the question for Verizon is whether possible benefits of caps outweigh the costs... yes, heavy users are a minority, but they're also the minority most likely to pay for Verizon's most expensive 50/20 speed tiers, so attracting them for now is probably good for VZ's bottom line. | |
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