geonaplolatidiots
join:2005-12-14
Glendale, CA
kudos:1 | you people are freaks everything after a while when becoming more profitable will then be divided and people will try to figure out how to suck more "monies" out of it, i say "monies" because it's like a bad email nigerian scam, the internet providers are pretty much talking in scamming languages.
whoever supports this idea that we pay to get on the internet, they don't guarantee a route to the actual internet.. if i recall correctly, that's pretty much an intranet.
then you figure, lets de-prioritize everything and make it fast. no, how about we pay for 20 megs, we get 20 megs. my datacenter doesn't de-prioritize anything and i can get good bandwidth for 4 dollars a meg. take all the committed bandwidth charter and ATT could have with this overselling crap, they have the lines and they have the network.
sooner or later, we'll see a conversation about the states having to pay a tax for every gig of transfer from/to that state and the fact that delivery of data to and from a state will also have an increase of prices at the hand of the telco and cable companies.
i recently cancelled charter and i told them their speeds sucked most of the time, they told me that they were giving me the fastest in the area -- 20 megs. i said offering is one thing, delivering is another.
i bet the people here who propose all these caps and de-prioritization and all that other wonderful mumbo jumbo about the pipe being private and content delivery companies need to pay money to the internet provider are POOR, they're wanna be republicans -- that's what i see a lot. People who sometimes are for big business don't know anything about business.
we first started paying for internet, everything was unlimited and juicy.. great and stuff, text used to be free with cell phones too -- right ? as soon as they're too lazy to move over to the next generation, spend money like other countries (and yes, i know.. other countries are government subsidized networks and much smaller so it's easier to handle those situations) they use network capacity as the culprit... well -- i dont care if network capacity is lacking, the fact is that there is network capacity, backbones have enough fiber to feed our habit and once the bigger profit eating companies spend the money they give to their share holders on infrastructure improvements, we would all be much better off..
REMEMBER, THIS IS AMERICA. WE GROW ALL THE TIME, WHY ISN'T OUR FREAKING INTERNET CAPACITY GROWING?
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kasar
join:2002-05-29
Brush Prairie, WA | The quantity of dark fiber the CLEC's have already in place is enormous. There was dramatic overbuilding in the dot-com days as they tried after-the-fact to build to fill ISP orders.
There are reasons Japan offers 160 mbit connections for the equivalent of $40/month. Most involve markets and competition, things US companies are increasingly insulated from. |
