Mellow
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join:2001-11-16
Salisbury, MD
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1 edit | no go with reselling cable
Most of the current broadband subscribers are on cable. You can't take down sbc or verzion with upload speeds under 1mbit. Not to mention it is against the TOS. Cracks me up when people think mesh networks are going to topple the big wigs, maybe the nerds will have a cool network but for the everyday person they won't want to deal with it. Plug and pray, that's all your average person wants to do for net access.
It is sweet dreams to think of verzion or sbc or the cable companies having to lower prices due to losing customers to this, but I think it will have a reverse effect, the price will double for whoever is sharing the line in the first place to make up for the lost clients sharing the line.
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH
| said by Mellow  :
Cracks me up when people think mesh networks are going to topple the big wigs,
I remember people saying the same thing 15 years ago when I said AT&T wouldn't dominate long distance and would see a time when they would be fighting just to maintain their existences. I learned a long time ago that if it sounds unbelievable then thats all the more reason it is probably believable. |
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