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Mari

@comcast.net

Making Docsis 3 services cheaper

Thanks for the write-up. Awesome.

Quick note about affordable high-speed plans from cable. Brian Santo at CED makes an interesting point in a recent article about the benefits for MSOs in seriously cutting fees for D3-enabled Internet tiers. In short, it costs a lot of money to get D3 up and running, but the cost to add subscribers is minimal. So far, interest in paying for the highest speed plans is minimal, so operators should cut fees to spur adoption and therefore a better revenue return. Makes sense to me. Cheaper D3 service = more people using it.

»www.cedmagazine.com/News-D3-made···110.aspx

cramer

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DOCSIS 3.0 gear is not as expensive as you think. TW's profits from a single month could buy dozens of new, list price, CMTS's from Cisco -- no discounts of any kind. a) Nobody pays Cisco retail/list prices. b) They don't need a new CMTS, just new line cards. Of course, until there's a gun to their head, they aren't going to divert any of the cash headed to their pockets to network upgrades.

(Their SEC filings have been very damning. Month-on-Month their revenues are increasing and operating costs decreasing. Yet they won't divert even 1% of those millions for network upgrades. Instead they want tiered pricing, bandwidth caps, and go to extraordinary lengths to screw with p-t-p traffic.)


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