more on worth reading "A Piece of the Action" (was: Charging "content providers" ...)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jeff Schult <jss () tftb com>
Date: January 17, 2006 3:22:07 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on worth reading "A Piece of the Action" (was:  
Charging "content providers" ...)
Reply-To: Jeff Schult <jss () tftb com>

Dear Dave,

My own recollection from having worked at a telco or two on the  
Internet side of things is that they had their eye on multiple tiers  
of service almost from the moment that DSL became a potential product  
-- and that this was a factor in the telcos all (curiously?) opting  
to use and specify PPPoE rather than the simpler cableco DHCP  
distribution.

Someone closer to the fray than I am now could perhaps shed more  
light on this, but I suspect that the telcos have more control over  
the deliver of metered bandwidth to individual customers than do  
cablecos?

-jeff schult

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