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jimbo48

join:2000-11-17
Hayward, CA
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Open mouth insert foot

Comcast and its predecessor TCI "promised" all the bells and whistles in my area (SF bay ) and glibly raised rates for these upcoming improvements yet all we ever saw was a bigger Cable bill. Well Comcast has finally gotten around to offer HSI with PowerBoost for 42.95 per month. They define Power boost of 12MB/sec for
PowerBoost provides bursts of download and upload speeds for the first 10 MB and 5 MB of a file. Wow 1-2 seconds of PowerBoost but ongoing speed is FAR FAR less in actuality-how about less than 4.0Mb down and 768kb up.
If this guy thinks Comcast is going to offer DOCIS 3.0 anytime soon in my area of the US (Several million people live in and around here). He has been drinking more than their kool-aid- maybe smokin' their stash as well. He probably sits in his uptown Manhattan high-rise (paid in part by the Cable industry for being their shill)and pontificates on conditions in the US of A of which he knows nothing about. It will be years before Comcast does anything because they're getting rich on the swill they already put out as HSI around here.

mrvid

join:2007-06-19
Levittown, NY

FCC makes a good point, CDV over private net, its a phone co.

I think what the FCC is pondering on is, if its their own, then their a phone company, not an information service.

Best of my knowledge, "voip" like movies, etc. was an internet service, basically "data", since what was viewed, watched, talked or heard over was categorized as an informational data stream, it was all treated as the internet.

If C is now saying CDV is a private network, voip technology or not, its a phone company, thats the point I think the FCC is trying to make.

If I were C, I would advise the FCC that they will mix the voip with the rest & just leave the throttling to bittorrent, if I am correct and that was the initial plan, otherwise they could see regulation and surprise taxes added to their phone service.

Since the service is delivered over the internet, caps would now apply for their own voip service as well but they could just choose to waive the caps if customers take their CDV service.

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