That is a golden sales and marketing rule. Always have 3 plans, and 80%
of the people will pick the middle option... then 10% on the top and 10%
on the bottom.
Travis
On 10/16/2015 11:05 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Maybe so you can tell your wife “see honey, I didn’t get the fastest
plan they offered, I compromised to save money”. Given 3 choices, you
always pick the one in the middle. Pick the silver, not the bronze or
gold plan.
One thing I worry about is the content providers may be pushing for a
world where they don’t have to worry about how fast the customer’s
connection is, the sky’s the limit. I suspect some video streams that
only need 2.5 or 5 Mbps, will stall and sputter unless the customer’s
Internet connection is 20 or 50 Mbps because they burst the data and
go all wonky if those bursts get a haircut in transit. And to the
customer, it’s an ISP problem. Yet if we try to shape the video
traffic to prevent this, we risk violating Open Internet rules by
treating some content differently. So what everyone expects is for us
to provide an infinite pipe so customers and content providers can use
it however they want.
*From:* mailto:p...@believewireless.net
*Sent:* Friday, October 16, 2015 11:40 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH
My question is, who is running around complaining that their 1 Gbps
Internet sucks? "Oh my god! My Internet is SO SLOW! Someone needs to
give me 10Gbps!"
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would like to see these hippie google bastards tooling around in
east st louis, Alphabet would have to generate a body armor company
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
East St. Louis...
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH
This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2015/10/15/square-ipo-filing-shows-fast-growth-consistent-losses/73985492/
And in the case of Google Fiber, how would we know if it was
profitable?
Unless Alphabet intends to split off companies to stand on
their own.
I do find it interesting that everyone focuses on the last
mile bandwidth,
as if that's the whole story. At least with business service,
you don't
have the ridiculous scenario of someone running their 10 Gbps
residential
Internet into an AC3200 router and doing speedtests on their
iPad. But if
they sell 10 Gbps business service at lower than datacenter
bandwidth
pricing, what happens if businesses start actually using it
like DIA or
datacenter bandwidth? Like someone decides to sell cloud
gaming or
streaming video or some business model that involves hundreds
of screens
streaming 4K video? Maybe some real time medical imaging
application.
And all this gigabit activity in cities doesn't really prove
much about less
populated or economically distressed areas. If Google's
intent is to prove
something, rather than cherry-pick, I'd still like to see them
wire Detroit
or Newark. Not the wealthy suburbs or select "fiberhoods".
Do the whole
city and show how it sparks an urban revival. Or go do a
small rural town
or a tribal reservation.
-----Original Message----- From: ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:20 AM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH
And, they are operating the system at a profit, right...?
-----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:52 AM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH
Does Google know they are getting out played by a small city? :)
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/10gbps-internet-offered-by-city-fighting-anti-muni-broadband-laws/
Travis
--
If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see
your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of
the team.
