Back in the early days, I doubled the speeds of all of our customers 2 or 3 times due to competitive pressures and advancements in Canopy. I never increased the price, just went from 256 to 512 to 1024. Never saw an increase in the bandwidth usage on our uplinks.
What could a Bob and Sally homeowner and their kids do to make a significant usage of a Gig? Of course everyone thinks it is sexy and the next thing you gotta have, but there only so many 4K 3D TVs a person can watch at one time. I guess they could host a server farm etc, but most folks will not even fully utilize 50M in the near future. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The latest gig city Interesting. Of course, one way to read the numbers is they could “upgrade” all the 110/50 customers to 1000/1000 and the only change would be $400 less revenue per month, and probably no more bandwidth usage. This is probably the marketing approach of most gigabit ISPs. If some killer app comes out that actually uses gigabit speeds, their bluff is called. From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] The latest gig city One subscriber at the gig level.... http://spectator.org/alabamas-gig-city-has-one-gigabit-broadband-subscriber/ Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone
