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Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a fewyears?

  • From: Jim Popovitch
  • Date: Wed May 11 14:48:36 2005 
Wow! You can buy groceries at Kohls now?  :-)

-Jim P.

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:08 -0700, Matt Bazan wrote:
> why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private
> reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25?  think you
> dsl resellers out there are doomed.  in fact, just a matter of time
> before most of you isps are down the toilet.  im reminded of the mom and
> pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,
> a&p, whole foods etc.  of course there will always be niche markets but
> this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth.  yeah, i
> suppose you'll say something about value added services and such and you
> may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long.