JSM88
join:2000-12-20
Falls Church, VA | ah, the refreshing taste of no caps of course, unlike cable customers, Fios users have no caps, just a beautiful open field of untrammeled bandwidth - and somehow verizon's network has not come crashing to a halt, nor has their balance sheet. |
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 dennismurphyPut me on hold? I'll put YOU on holdPremium
join:2002-11-19
Parsippany, NJ | I dunno ... my uncapped Optimum Online BOOST cable service seems to be a pretty beautiful field too.
Not *all* cable providers suck ... just most of 'em.  |
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For now.
Cable had no caps until recently.
Don't worry, caps are coming. Maybe not now, maybe not next year, but when Verizon corners the market, I'm willing to bet money that they'll start seeing the "value" of caps. |
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 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | said by fifty nine:For now. Cable had no caps until recently. Don't worry, caps are coming. Maybe not now, maybe not next year, but when Verizon corners the market, I'm willing to bet money that they'll start seeing the "value" of caps. Around here, cable has *always* had caps of one sort or another.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
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That's what they've always said even back in the DSL days. And we're still waiting. Apparently tomorrow or next year never gets here. |
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Celia
join:2001-12-05
Chicago, IL | We live in today, the cap of verizon lives in tomorrow. so we kinda dont share the same day... |
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Back in the day, I had RoadRunner and RCN and there were no caps either. I kept hearing how "shared capacity isn't an issue."
Now it's become an issue and here come the caps.
Verizon has no caps now because they want to woo cable customers. When they don't have that need anymore, that's when the time for caps will be just right. |
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JSM88
join:2000-12-20
Falls Church, VA | reply to fifty nine
See - this is the very essence of Cable's thinking - that they can keep screwing with their customers and eventually Verizon will join them. The logic does not follow. Now if you were saying that eventually the cable folks will disappear and vz will own the market (and be able to institute caps due to the lack of market forces to the contrary - the cable infrastructure won't disappear - either they will lose so many customers (and video subscriptions as iptv takes over) that they will be bought out for the value of their infrastructure(discounted) by someone who knows how to compete for consumers $ or they will begin to compete themselves.
One thing that won't happen is VZ owning the market all to itself - we may appreciate their approach to broadband today, and may even reward it by showing preference to their model - but the ultimate outcome for them, at best, is owning a competitive, truly national, network (and the concomitant revenues), not a monopoly. |
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cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5 Reviews:
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said by fifty nine:Verizon has no caps now because they want to woo cable customers. When they don't have that need anymore, that's when the time for caps will be just right. Verizon has no caps now because they have no need for caps. They have plenty of capacity and are being proactive with keeping up with current and future demands.
There will always be churn with cable companies and other competitors. They will always be wooing customers to come over from cable. So by your logic, Verizon shouldn't ever have to implement caps then. |
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