tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
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Re: Clue Truck coming down the road...
Honestly, I'm not sure they'd have to raise rates. More people using the networks means more subscribers, means more profit. Given that most customers aren't the oft-quoted 5% "hogging it all", they are effectively pure profit which should be able to offset any such "light up" cost would incur.
If not, then obviously they'll have to raise rates, however. But, that's business as usual.
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RayW
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Layton, UT
clubs: | But the article was not talking about new subscribers, it was talking about new data types like video and multimedia that eat up a tremendous amount resources not used before.
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
| True, but the new subs are, nonetheless, still coming in.
Either way, the use is due to progress (for all), rather than a specific scapegoatted minority. Cost of business and all that.
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RayW
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clubs: | Was not AT&T the one that said if you want to serve his customers, you will have to pay extra? Or was that another telco?
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Matt
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1 edit | said by RayW  :Was not AT&T the one that said if you want to serve his customers, you will have to pay extra? Or was that another telco? So AT&T wants to be paid for the following:
1) The DSL users who pay AT&T.
2) The Data Center or Content Provider who buys OC-VeryFast from AT&T.
3) The Content Provider who pays AT&T for prioritization to the DSL customer.
4) The people AT&T has peering agreements with because more data is moving across their network.
Wow. I wish mine were that big. |
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pcnetworx1
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Bethel Park, PA | No you don't. If you had ATT's, you couldn't walk!  |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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said by Matt :So AT&T wants to be paid for the following: 1) The DSL users who pay AT&T. 2) The Data Center or Content Provider who buys OC-VeryFast from AT&T. 3) The Content Provider who pays AT&T for prioritization to the DSL customer. 4) The people AT&T has peering agreements with because more data is moving across their network. I think you could just summarize it like this:
So AT&T wants to be paid by the following:
1) Every single human being on earth
.... unless they are AT&T Management.
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