Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv | Just in time Cable Cos and ATT are getting those Monthly Caps in place just in time.  | |
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JasonOD
@comcast.net
| Re: Just in time They're not stupid. I'm a stockholder owning shares of both Comcast and ATT, and we're already pissed off enough as it is. Both companies have to increase profit margins, and if they can't get the IPTV video content players to pay, then caps are the only alternative.
I'm not against overages either and disagree with Comcast simply terminating high bandwidth accounts. As far as I'm concerned, they are taking money away from the company by not allowing overage charges. Bandwith is cheap enough, so even charging a quarter a gig would be mostly profit. | |
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masterpjz9
join:2000-10-14
Peabody, MA | Re: Just in time You really think Comcast's and ATT's profit margins aren't high enough already? You don't see Verizon putting any caps on their FIOS... | |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Re: Just in time "You don't see Verizon putting any caps on their FIOS..."
Give them time. If they see it's a big success for the other big guys they will do it too. | |
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kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL
| There is no bandwidth crunch. Comcast is worried because it doesn't own its own backbone and has to buy its bandwidth from an upstream provider or at the very least be on the losing end of a peering relationship since most of its traffic is customers downloading from the Interwebs.
AT&T, on the other hand, owns more bandwidth than god but has been incredibly short sighted and greedy when it comes to planning upgrades for the last mile. They don't like bandwidth hogs because they can't really compete with their competition. DSL pair bonding never left the lab and their FTTP footprint is so minuscule, it might as well not exist.
As another poster mentioned...you don't see Verizon worried about this silliness, do you?
That's because VZ had the forethought to actually buy their way to owning a pretty big chunk of the Internet backbone via the MCI/UUNET purchase. And then they went out and built a FTTP plant.
Shareholders hated it at the time. Many shortsighted oafs, the same kind that are out of work on wall street now, were crying murder. But If I were an investor with cash, I'd buy VZ.
They have a long term plan that beats all others and have proved that it works. ...and with the current stock market conditions, the stock has never been a better buy.
AT&T will only succeed if it can buy its way to success with lobbyists and killing competition.
Comcast can always go back to being a video provider. | |
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join:2003-11-24
Oak Ridge, TN | Re: Just in time Comcast does have it's own fiber backbone. Just adding a correction. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by JasonOD :
They're not stupid. I'm a stockholder owning shares of both Comcast and ATT, and we're already pissed off enough as it is. Both companies have to increase profit margins, and if they can't get the IPTV video content players to pay, then caps are the only alternative. Why should they have to pay? They already pay for bandwidth and so do Comcast and at&t cusotmers. Sorry and tough shit for you and them. Keep trying these caps Comcast and at&t will be the ones fucked in the end. Just wait.
Comcast and at&t already make plenty enough money and could make more if they just quit being rtetared and get rid of retard management and get management with BRAINS. Pretty simple actualy. They want to do things the LAZY way. Nice to know you support retards. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by Mactron  :Cable Cos and ATT are getting those Monthly Caps in place just in time. The "NEW pay per view" only its a 320x240 window AT THE SAME price cable charges for PPV!
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
1 edit | Re: Just in time said by gball :Speaking of caps and pay per byte whatever. You know I'm just an average joe. I'll watch my Knight Rider or The Office on nbc.com and I got no problems watching the ads which is much less than if I was watching it on TV. Am I alone in feeling that the day my internet bill goes above I dunno say $60 a month I will simply get rid of it? Do these companies really think the average person is gonna pay $100+ a month in overages whatever because they need to download HD movies etc? They are stupid enough to think you will still pay full price for internet stop using it so much and go back to watching regular TV. That's the plan. Frankly if I had to get rid of one I'd get rid of cable. Tv is just TV. The internet you can do many things.
Now if people are smart and they live in an area where they have choice they would do somethng, like this to teach these companies. Ok I have Charter cable, internet phone with at&t( at&t also offers DSl ) so both have caps. OK Well I'd go with who had the highest cap( probably Charter ). Then I dump BOTH phone and cable. Go with directTv and just use strictly cell through Verizon or use something like skype or other VoIp. Now at&t not only lost me as a potential internet customer, but also lost my phone business. Charter lost me as a cable customer after 8 years. Will either company make back the revenue from me on cap overages? Nope. Since the ISPs say only a SMALL % of customers even go over the cap, the revenue they will get from overage fees is very small. If people dump their other services like me they will LOSE revenue. And it will only take a small % for that to have an effect. So ISPs are being short sighted, obtuse and just plain ignorant if they think this won't happen. | |
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