 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Do I Understand This Correctly? Do I understand this correctly?
Basically the Indie ISPs pay for their connections to the internet, pay Bell for the last-mile to the Indie ISP facility backhaul, and pass a portion of the customer's last mile fee along to Bell also. Now Bell wants to implement usage based billing across that LAST MILE portion only?
Wouldn't that be TRIPLE dipping? |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Carrying Place, ON
kudos:1 | Triple dipping indeed. The Indie ISP's make little profit as it is. Now they'll be out of business. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| said by HoboJ:Triple dipping indeed. The Indie ISP's make little profit as it is. Now they'll be out of business. Which is the point, really.
What Bell is doing is plainly very anti-competitive... but since the regulatory agency tasked with protecting/preventing said activity is staffed by Bell lobbyists, they don't have to worry.
It's kinda like when the Sheriff in town is brothers with the main outlaw who robs and steals whatever he wishes.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Matt
said by Matt:Do I understand this correctly? Basically the Indie ISPs pay for their connections to the internet, pay Bell for the last-mile to the Indie ISP facility backhaul, and pass a portion of the customer's last mile fee along to Bell also. Now Bell wants to implement usage based billing across that LAST MILE portion only? Wouldn't that be TRIPLE dipping? I believe they only pay for the user's last mile, the CO to POP backbone/routing is included with the price.
UBB doesn't exist in any form in the USA. In USA, the CLEC must colocate a DSLAM in the CO or at the RT (never done). In Canada, a CLEC can just order a ATM circuit from their single POP to a customer for ~$30 or whatever per month (while that would $3000/mo if it was an SLAed business grade product that ILECs oh so love to sell). Bell provides the middle mile routing fabric from the CO to a regional hub/the ISP's POP. |
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