 n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| Cablevision As long as Cablevision continues to reject metering then Verizon will have to cool its heels in those areas where they compete against them. I am actually surprised that CV is holding the line.
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| said by n2jtx:As long as Cablevision continues to reject metering then Verizon will have to cool its heels in those areas where they compete against them. I am actually surprised that CV is holding the line. This and added threat of competition from muni's will keep them in check, if the competition can happen and muni's get developed. I'm not sure Cablevision's motives are entirely pure either, they must be contemplating the same thing other ISP's are with per-byte, metered etc... Unfortunately, from my point of view, they can throw their muscle behind it and force it anyway. With the lack of competition in some areas (mine for example), what is the little guy gonna do? |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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CV has a very small footprint as cable companies go, centered on a huge fiber POP (NYC area). They can hook up at Equinix, peer off 80% of their traffic after carrying it for at most 200 miles, and push the rest over low-cost carriers like Cogent at $4 per megabit.
On the subscriber side, they have a minimal number of cable subscribers per node, and have five DOCSIS channels on each node (one for WiFi/STBs, one for regular 15/2, one for Boost + Ultra, two for Ultra only). Comcast has five channels on my node, but they're serving many more customers. Comcast also has a national backbone network to keep running.
Because of the way CV works, they can offer uncapped low-priced service across 100% of their footprint and not care about usage. Even if someone pulled down 5TB of data over their 101/15 connection, CV's costs would still be below their revenues.
Comcast is getting to be the same way in terms of bandwidth costs, and their network is getting to be a high-quality mostly-peered beast. However they serve areas where competition is lower, and are thus able to keep 250GB residential soft caps without issue. |
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| When I went apartment hunting this last summer my first question to prospective complexes was who their cable provider is. Right or wrong... for me CV is a factor when determining "quality of life" |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY Reviews:
·Optimum Online
| said by sharksfan3:When I went apartment hunting this last summer my first question to prospective complexes was who their cable provider is. Right or wrong... for me CV is a factor when determining "quality of life" That would be a point for me too. As bad as everything is in the metropolitan NYC area with taxes, fees, congestion, etc. robust fast unmetered Internet service from either Verizon or CV is nice compensation.
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