Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

[Frank Coluccio <frank () dticonsulting com>]

Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

> there's going to be *plenty* of room for small 
> flexible operators in niche markets, at both 
> ends of the pipe.

Agreed. Adding some substance to those words, see:

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21312808

Frank A. Coluccio
DTI Consulting

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On Fri May 13  9:03 , Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu sent:

> On Fri, 13 May 2005 11:23:14 BST, Michael.Dillon () radianz com said:
>
> > Their impact can't be measured because it spread out into niche
> > markets. Like blogs and wikis and all those photo sites.
> > And my company's network with 1,000 customers and PoPs in
> > 20 countries all doing 100% ASP traffic. ASPs businesses are
> > thriving. However, the crystal ball gazers who hyped them
> > back in the late 90's just got it all wrong because they
> > thought ASPs would displace MS-Office desktops and SAP 
> > installations.
>
> Exactly what *I* predicted - there's going to be *plenty* of room for
> small flexible operators in niche markets, at both ends of the pipe.
>
> In fact, there's almost certainly money to be made by leveraging the fact that
> Comcast wants to do 4M/384K/$25 - the number of companies making money from
> finding innovative ways to sell you electricity is *far* outweighed by the
> number of companies finding new ways to make money based on the fact that
> somebody *else* is selling you electricity.
>
> The only people who need to worry are the ones whos business model is "We made
> money selling 'just pipes' in that market 5 years ago, and we're doing it now,
> so it will still be OK 5-10 years from now". 98% of *those* companies are in
> for a rude awakening. ;)