| Welcome to another edition of "As The Irony Wheel Turns!"
Given the recent ambitions to impose metered billing on customers to monetize and ration competing Internet video, some folks are obviously skeptical about the motivations here. Many believe forcing the existing model online behind authentication walls isn't really so much about innovation as it is about control. Customers are already skeptical over Comcast's TV-over-net offering (which is supposed to prevent defections and prevent people from seeing it as a penny-pinching scheme) yet Comcast has now announced that that same service will also eat into your internet cap allowance!
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 IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Why wouldn't it?
The small end of the funnel is the DOCSIS interface between your cable modem and their head-end. The capacity for IP transport on that link is the same whether you're going out to the Internet or grabbing video via the MSO's own on-line video service. |
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| said by espaeth:The small end of the funnel is the DOCSIS interface between your cable modem and their head-end. So you are saying that the basic transport mechanism is not up to the task? Maybe, instead of anti-competitive limits wrapped in network protection doublespeak, the NCTA and CableLabs might be working on fixing the problem? Of course not...because network protection is the last thing on their minds. Outrageous profit protection, however, keeps them up at night. For all of the bitching about the cost to provide things like SMS vs what wireless companies charge nobody has ever fully vetted and reported the cost to provide video over IP over residential cable vs what is charged by the cable mafia.
Greed is the problem. How much did Comcast make last year again? |
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| NEWSFLASH!!! COMPANIES ARE IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY!
Why is it that EVERYONE that complains about caps and such are the same people that demand companies stop making any profit. They always have the same mentality that the company should give them everything for free. Why is that? Are you so important that companies should just bow they heads and hand over anything they are selling for nothing?
The business model of MAKING A PROFIT has been around since the very first trading companies and yet you don't seem to understand. It's simple! If you like what is being sold, it is the right price for you and you like the way the company does business then buy their product if not then KEEP YOUR DAMN MONEY and move on. If the company is not doing business appropriately they will lose money and go out of business in time. Simple right?
If Comcast is doing such a bad job at running THEIR business then why are they still in business? Its because they are still offering a service that the masses use and pay for. Oh and they will continue tto make money and reinvest as they see fit because IT'S THEIR BUSINESS!
Maybe you need to start a non-profit Internet company and give everyone unlimited access to put these “greedy” companies out of business. |
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| Everybody wants something for free... |
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