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In article <7c7l1g$5ba$1@shell1.ncal.verio.com>, gerg@shell1.ncal.verio.com 
writes...
> For_Email@ddress.see.below_plea.se (Phil Koenig) writes:
> >In article <7c4uuc$5tl$1@shell1.ncal.verio.com>, gerg@shell1.ncal.verio.com 
> >writes...
> >> For_Email@ddress.see.below_plea.se (Phil Koenig) writes:
> >> >
> >> >Last I heard, T-1 etc. connections to major backbone providers 
> >> >were going UP in price, not down.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> Really?  Quest (or is it Qwest?) isn't offering high-speed
> >> connections for less than Alternet/Sprint/GTE, etc.?
> >> 
> >
> >Even if true, is Qwest the only company that any ISP ever buys
> >transit/connectivity from?  I daresay they are not yet a 
> >majority player in the market.
> >
> >Things may be different in a couple of years, but we're
> >talking about prices for DSL/cable customers NOW.
> >
> 
> Forgive me, but I understood the phrase "...were going up in price..."
> as indicating a trend that has been occurring *over time*, with the
> implication that the trend will continue through the future.
> 
> Qwest certainly isn't a majority player yet, but that doesn't mean
> they can't have an effect on the market, does it?
> 
>   -Greg


Sorry, didn't mean to imply that this trend is supposed to last
for the forseeable future.

I simply meant to point out that unlike so many other things
in the computer world (memory prices, disk prices, CPU prices,
etc.) you are not seeing similiar kinds of mass price erosion
in transit/backbone connectivity.. on the contrary the trend
(AFAIK) has been upward.

I have no doubt the prices will fall, they just aren't 
falling much YET.

And since they haven't yet fallen on the backbone side,
the prospect of people getting all this T-1 bandwidth 
for $50/mo. *reliably* and *consistently* just isn't 
extremely likely for a while.

Sure the early adopters are seeing some nice performance,
but (as happened w/ @home) that isn't bound to last
for the greater masses as more get hooked up. (until
there is a major paradigm shift on the backbone side)



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