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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?
On this I am wondering what the user market would chose with an offer from a DSL provider of a guaranteed bandwidth purchase with a contention based cap on max speed. For example DSL sold with a guaranteed bandwidth availability of 256K (or 512K, 768K etc based on 256K increments) with a "up to" maximum of 7-10Mbps. Would the typical user understand the difference between this the standard Comcast marketing of "up to" speeds without any service guarantee? Shane >It won't be long before the telco's respond by offering DSL at the same speed/price. I've heard (but don't *know*) that SBC is selling 6 down and 1 up in >Houston and Dallas for $35. > >We're doing a fair business selling accelerated dial up for $15. Its surprising how many folks don't want broadband. You don't need 4mb down to read >your email. And once you get outside of the city limits there's a good sized market that can't get any type of broadband, especially cable. > >We may decline some, but I don't think that ISP's are going away anytime soon. > >Bob Martin
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