AZinOH
join:2007-04-25
Swanton, OH
 ·Windstream
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Re: Yes, mmm I see
What I find difficult to understand is this: On the one hand there are the ISPs complaining about how this flood of downloading is straining their networks and costing them money. On the other hand, there are all these groups just chomping at the bit and rubbing their hands in glee thinking about how they are going to make all this money by selling all this streaming video (baseball-football-basketball) not to mention movies and music. Doesn't the second group know that their business plan is at the mercy of a bandwith supply that the first group can limit at will? Don't these businesses talk to each other? If not they better start and the first thing they should iron out is that if you sell a service that consumes bandwidth, you better be willing to contribute resources necessary to help supply that bandwidth. The customer doesn't deserve to be caught in the middle wanting to pay for both an internet connect and a service he desires only to find that using said service runs him out of an allowed supply of usage. |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| said by AZinOH  : Don't these businesses talk to each other? Oh, they'll talk, that's a given. When the goal is to part consumers from their money, it'll not take long for the purveyors of ancillary goods to work towards the common goal of enriching themselves and those they ultimately serve.
No worries there, eh? |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ
 ·Sprint Broadband D..
| said by Titus Pullo :said by AZinOH : Don't these businesses talk to each other? Oh, they'll talk, that's a given. When the goal is to part consumers from their money, it'll not take long for the purveyors of ancillary goods to work towards the common goal of enriching themselves and those they ultimately serve. No worries there, eh? And who wants most to get their hands on that bandwidth? The television broadcasters, who have been seeing their viewer numbers slip, every year, as High-Speed Internet service becomes more ubiquitous.
The perfect solution for them would be to make sure that the only content available is their content, and they are willing to throw money at that dream. It would turn the internet into The New Cable TV.
And if you think that the present democratized internet and a Broadcast TV internet can co-exist, especially in the eyes of the broadcasters and the infrastructure providers, who have a knee-jerk aversion to infratructure investment, you got another thing coming. |
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