JasonOD
@comcast.net
| reply to Mactron
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 | 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 | "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
| reply to JasonOD
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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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to JasonOD
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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Penny3000
join:2003-11-24
Oak Ridge, TN | reply to kapil
Comcast does have it's own fiber backbone. Just adding a correction. |
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Ryno
The Wanderer
Premium
join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RCN CABLE
| reply to JasonOD
And the way the internet is evolving everyone will eventually be a high bandwidth user. Cable companies with some content being web based will be forcing consumers to use cap space thus creating overages. your monthly bill will eat up any profit you think you're going to make. Even basic web browsing and email has increased by a huge amount. Content is the number one reason we can no longer use dial up. Oh but I'm sure they will just randomly raise caps for people from time to time once they get them in place. If we still had pay per use like years ago the whole internet would not have turned out as it has.
Be careful what you wish for.
Oh and as a side note, there are much better investments than ATT and Comcast, maybe you wouldn't be pissed if you checked out other investments. |
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