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I knew since day one the Xohm will never be radically different from existing 3G services, WiMAX/Xohm is nothing more than a more efficient protocol/modulation running on more spectrum than EVDO/HSDPA. It would be market suicide to do any real changes to the business model (selling pseudo wire T1 circuits for $299 a mo, 100 GB+ per month usage, no caps/no throttling, not forcing people to wired broadband, using a carrier interchangable wireless broadband standard (WiMAX is effectively carrier locked by frequency, have fun with double speak fanboys)). The issue of contracts/prepaid service was going to tickle down by the incumbent cell carriers anyways eventually. Pay per use is always more profitable than a monthly fee. When internet traffic is "unlimited" you always get throttling. Just wait, 1-2 months from now Xohm will introduce 6GB or 10GB caps (hey, thats revolutionary isn't it?
) and grandfather all unlimited users, and have Xohm Customer Security kick off the grandfathered abusers. ALL ISPs have TOS/AUPs with the same language, and finally executives/CIO/CTO decided to use the clauses in them.
Best solution for P2P is for ISPs to start bundling in complimentary torrentbox, torrent downloading website portal/PHP script controlling a BT client, and include a couple other protocols, its a "download service" and pretty much a managed dedicated/hosted web server running p2p software. Anyways, whats the problem with P2P other than upload, I am not going to be downloading the same file more than once, whats the difference between transport in a BT or eDonkey header and a HTTP header?