calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Plenty of BB competition - Martin is right
said by TKJunkMail  :... And as long as there are competing players in the marketplace, the concerns over locking out of users from specific areas of the web are unfounded. Because 1 of the players would use that to get customers from the others. ... As sporkme pointed out above, when there are only a handful of providers, it's easy for them all to squeeze out the true competition, be it Vonage or some new search engine or whatever.
Road Warrior, your logic may apply in a grocery store but not in the broadband market. If I don't like the house brand of corn at Safeway I can easily shop at Kroger later today or next week. Broadband access is a much more "committed" experience--you don't switch providers on a daily or weekly basis. It's more like buying a car or renting an apartment. Should GM be free to suddenly say your warranty is invalid unless you use GM gasoline, or to inform you that the computer in your car will start choking on ARCO gas next week? Should you landlord be able to suddenly decree that you must drop telco broadband and instead hook up to his new LAN?
calvoiper
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