iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to MyDogHsFleas
Re: There better be NO cap on U-verse tiers They weren't at-capacity to start with, and on the OC 768's third birthday they'll be back up to that same capacity they are right now.
Also, when you spread that 17.5B over all their wireless, wireline and business customers (all of them paying) you find the upgrade cot per customer to be comparable to maybe Qwest's ADSL2+ rolout. In short, sure they had to upgrade their netowrk, but the backbone upgrade was less than the cost of deploying UVerse, by a large factor. |
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·RoadRunner Cable
| said by iansltx:They weren't at-capacity to start with, and on the OC 768's third birthday they'll be back up to that same capacity they are right now. Of course they were not "at capacity". It wouldn't be very smart of them to let their backbone get to the point where no more workload can be supported.
So what's your point? That they should wait until they are out of capacity before they implement caps on some emergency basis? That would not be a smart way to run the business.
Also, when you spread that 17.5B over all their wireless, wireline and business customers (all of them paying) you find the upgrade cot per customer to be comparable to maybe Qwest's ADSL2+ rolout. In short, sure they had to upgrade their network, but the backbone upgrade was less than the cost of deploying UVerse, by a large factor.
Backbone upgrades vs. customer-premise deployments are two different things. I can't imagine what your point is comparing these two costs. What difference does it make what their "cost per customer" is for a backbone upgrade?
Are you trying to say that $17 billion isn't so much money and AT&T should just throw that into the pot for free? That is ridiculous. It's a business. They need return on investment. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| If they have more capacity on the backbone, they have more capacity on the backbone. At which point they can offer faster tiers for more money. Since the OC768 upgrade means there's no bandwidth crunch anywhere on the system they don't have to lower limits by capping subscribers.
Also, they're getting ROI: customers paying for internet access! |
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