| Speaking from a Small ISP's point of view...... The model sucks. You have to pay a really high price for something a low number of customers want. If you divide the costs by the number of people who are actually using the service you are not making any money on the customers who want the service. It's not really that fair to spread the cost of a service that the minority of users use across the majority of users don't care about.
I would prefer a model where an ISP can buy access for their entire user base OR the consumer can subscribe on their own. |
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| ISP's need to engage in their own PR program, informing their subscribers they don't hinder their access to ESPN - ESPN does. Move the complaints from the ISP's doorstep to ESPN's.
It's all up to the subscriber. Are they going to jump ship just for ESPN, if it's even an available option? Are they going to send ESPN a nasty email? Or are they just going to give up on ESPN and move on? |
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| reply to battleop
The entire model of the internet is based on a pay per user basis. Any model that spread the cost among the entire base goes against the very mentality of the internet. |
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| The problem with that is that portions of the entertainment industry are now thinking that the Internet will be the primary medium for their content. Since when did the ISP become the Pimp for the entertainment industry?
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BF69~~~Please stop suffocating gerbils! |
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