Re: "@Home Subscribers Angered By New Policies"

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From: pdohert
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00

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John Higdon wrote:
> 
> In article <920886078.545019@rockhead.com>, newhouse@nospam.crap (Paul
> Newhouse) wrote:
> > You don't get it, we are all paying bandwidth charges now. If your complaint
> > is that the increments aren't what you'd like to see then start your own
> > service and charge in increments you do like.
> 
> Are you serious? If a DSL customer has a circuit capable of 1.54 MBPS, for
> which he pays < $100/month, why would ANYONE continue to pay for a T1 at
> twenty times that amount from a first-tier provider if they are buying the
> same thing?

Well I for one wouldn't but a business might since they can get:

1) Better service and likely on a provider closer to a backbone
2) *Guaranteed* T1 throughput at all times.  Show me an ADSL account
under 100 dollars in the US with *guaranteed minimum bi-directional
rates of 1.544Mbps

--

Paul Doherty
Systems Analyst/Programmer
http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty
Home of PC DiskMaster

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