Thou shalt not question Comcast

[Robert Krawitz]

   Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:32 -0500
   From: Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org>

   jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
   > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:36:30AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
   >> jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
   >>> It is clear that comcast/(all ISP's) cannot afford to sell
   >>> residential services if customers can effectively "resell"
   >>> (or give away) those same "services" to others.
   >> I don't buy this either.  They can always undersell you, since they are the
   >> upstream provider.  
   > 
   > Matt, they can't undersell "free"  and its difficult to undersell 
   > "priced at one tenth the cost of the service" (deep pockets and
   > time can win there though) but the price isn't actually relevant. 
   > 
   > Its not a market competition.

   I think we were talking about different things.  I was talking
   about actually reselling access, I see now you were talking about
   giving away the "web service".  That's quite a stretch in my
   opinion, since the stuff I am (or was) "serving" on my home web
   server isn't competing with something that Comcast is offering, and
   it ultimately has no real effect on bandwidth usage (see below).

The real reason, I imagine, is to "let" Comcast sell you a much more
expensive business package.

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