Re: It's Showtime for Tiered Broadband

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tice DeYoung <ticed () bellatlantic net>
Date: August 12, 2008 9:46:15 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Cc: Tice DeYoung <ticed () bellatlantic net>
Subject: Re: [IP] It's Showtime for Tiered Broadband

Dave,

  The new generation of ISPs will have to learn their lessons the  
same hard way the last ones did.  People don't like not knowing what  
their ISP costs will be.  The price/bit didn't work before and it  
won't work now.  It's interesting that some bean counter comes up with  
an idea that will increase their revenue without having to improve  
their infrastructure and the bean counter or lawyer at the top  
approves it.  When it fails the CEO takes his golden parachute, goes  
to another company and does the same thing again and again.  The bean  
counter doesn't notice.

Tice

At 7:12 PM -0400 8/11/08, David Farber wrote:
> Time to look at why they like tiered approaches. Does wreck internet  
> video deliveries economics. Sounds like maybe carriers should be  
> banned from media delivery. djf
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> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: August 11, 2008 2:41:12 PM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] It's Showtime for Tiered Broadband
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> [Note:  This item comes from friend Randy Burge.  DLH]
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> From: Randy Burge <burge () proactive to>
> Date: August 11, 2008 11:19:40 AM PDT
> To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: It1s Showtime for Tiered Broadband
>
> It's Showtime for Tiered Broadband
>
> Stacey Higginbotham, Monday, August 11, 2008     at 9:00 AM PT
>
> The two-month grace period is ending for Time Warner Cable customers  
> in Beaumont, Texas, who are part of the ISPs tiered broadband  
> trials. A spokesman for Time Warner Cable declined to comment but  
> confirmed that residents would soon see bills reflecting the $1 per  
> gigabyte overage charge for those who have consumed more than the 5  
> GB allowed under the $29.95 plan all the way up to the 40 GB allowed  
> under the $54.90 plan. Now they'll have to pay them.
>
> <snip>
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> <http://gigaom.com/2008/08/11/its-showtime-for-tiered-broadband/  
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