WMLGuy
join:2000-06-05
Rockaway, NJ
| Confused
Quote from article:
"If I go to the airport, I can buy a coach standby ticket or a first-class ticket," Smith said. "In the shipping business, I can get two-day air or six-day ground."
Bellsouth, along with every other ISP, has this today. Slow Internet access (six-day ground): $14/month
Faster Internet access (two-day air): $40+/month |
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JonR800
Premium
join:2003-08-06
Farmington, MI
| said by WMLGuy  :Quote from article: "If I go to the airport, I can buy a coach standby ticket or a first-class ticket," Smith said. "In the shipping business, I can get two-day air or six-day ground." Bellsouth, along with every other ISP, has this today. Slow Internet access (six-day ground): $14/month Faster Internet access (two-day air): $40+/month I don't think it could be said any better. Someone needs to remind these execs what business they're in.
Telcos are just green with envy (and greed) that content providers are really starting to make money. They probably had a big meeting to figure out how to get a piece of the pie. |
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yeoldwizard
@md.us
| reply to WMLGuy
nuh uh uh... not quite right:
6 day ground: DSL
2 day air: fiber
paying for 2 day air and then having the shipping company tell you "too bad 2 day air now means 6 day ground, and even though they are the same they have different names and diferent prices": BellSouth, and with some extent nearly every other ISP. I mean, if you have 1 15/2 setup w/Verizon, youre not allowed to host your own personal non-commercial FTP server. I mean, WTF? you have all that bandwith youre never going to use with an always on connection and you cant run your own FTP server?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
F***ing leeches who just want to siphon away all of our money........... god f*** them...... |
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Wireless Major
@cavtel.net
| While I agree that you should be able to use the bandwidth how you see fit, Verizon is just using standard CYA procedures.
Probably 75-80% of those who wish to host a personal non-commercial FTP server would be doing so to distribute warez. 2MB/s upload makes a fine dump. Before OOL decided to crack down and cap people, a few years back, lots of people who had OOL connections used them to provide dumps for IRC channels.
Anywho, as to the main topic, I fail to see how Google or any other content provider should be forced to pay tribute payments to ISPs for QoS of their content. Content providers themselves pay for bandwidth, so its not like anyone is getting a free ride, except for the consumer.
I feel bad for those who have BellSouth and are unable to switch to another high-speed carrier. One can only hope that someone with big enough guts decides to roll out their own infrastructure and bring competition to the table....and not be legislated or injunctioned out of business. |
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majella77
join:2001-10-03
Chicago, IL
| reply to JonR800
They must have held this meeting of the "minds" in the dunce corner.
What is to stop telcos from doing this to any internet site, not just Google?
Do you think Google and the others are going to just sit around wand wait for ISP's to pick their pockets?
All BS and others will be doing by trying this is accelerate the competition in their own markets. What Google and others will do is fund their own ISP services and where would that leave BS and SBC? |
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dot-bomb v2
@sonnet.com
| It will leave them laughing all the way to the bank as @Home v2.0 crashes and burns, or Rhythms Netconnections v2.0 crashes and burns, or WinFirst v2.0 crashes and burns, or Northpoint v2.0 crashes and burns, or Global Crossing v2.0 crashes and burns, or 360 Networks v2.0 crashes and burns.
Haven't you guys figured it out yet? This game has already been played, and the monopolies won. |
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