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Re: metered billing means Your missing the point. The 60 or 70 or 80 percent of the people that are only utilizing 5 or 10 or even 20 gig per month are more than adequately making up for the 5 % of the people that use into the 100s of gigs. By stating that they don't, they are admitting that they have an oversold inferior network!
With that admission in mind, why is it the responsibility of the consumer to upgrade a network all at once rather than over time like it should have been done in the first place.
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| said by S_engineer:By stating that they don't, they are admitting that they have an oversold inferior network! That's one way to phrase it -- the other way is to say the oversubscription ratio is starting to change a bit faster than what they can budget for expansion. Network growth is planned every year for every major ISP out there -- the problem is when demand exceeds planned growth based on budget.
said by S_engineer:With that admission in mind, why is it the responsibility of the consumer to upgrade a network all at once rather than over time like it should have been done in the first place. You have to remember in the cable world DOCSIS systems started out with 2,000+ cable modems attached per downstream channel when they were being deployed at the start of the decade. Now it's typical to see 250 modems or less on a downstream channel, and 125 or less per upstream channel.
Same deal with expansion for DSL. The Remote Terminal DSLAM that feeds my house was installed in 2005 with a couple T1s feeding it to provide my ILEC the ability to sell 1.5mps DSL service. Just a few weeks back they started dropping in a brand new fiber distribution system that will serve as a potential platform for FTTP deployments in the future, but for now they've been able to expand capacity to the RT so they can offer 10mbps DSL in the meantime.
Upgrades are constant, and are done as part of planned tech refresh cycles under the annual budget. The problem is rapid expansion is more expensive than waiting for technology to mature and the price of equipment to come down. If people are going to drive traffic that forces broadband providers to get the newest equipment at top dollar prices, that money has to come from somewhere. | |
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