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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. If You give away their bandwidth for free, and consume several times as much bandwidth as they have allocated to each "residence" that pretty much overwhelms their pricing structure. Their business fails. > And it's infeasible for Joe Random customer to "resell" > the service in any way other than dial-up. Dial up has nothing to do with it. Dial up is not needed to resell SMTP transport (email portal) or web services and those would both consume ISP bandwidth. They are not worried about customers reselling access to the web, they are (or were) worried about bandwidth consumption in excess of their model. Now they have a new problem Now they just want to make sure that you buy all your video experiences from them. SD and HD level video. Most You tube stuff is not a threat. HuLu is. YouTube will be. --
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