On Jan 17, 2008 5:35 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > The irony, of course, is that the networks are rolling out next-gen 10 Gb > fiber connections all over the country, so there is plenty of backbone > bandwidth. The cable companies have just gotten fat, dumb and happy on > broadband user subscriptions and they want to keep milking it. >
As someone who spent nearly 13 years criss-crossing the U.S. engineering and building those fiber optic networks, I can agree with that assessment completely. At one time or another, every major cable company (and most mom-and-pops) were clients of mine, and that's the _only_ thing that this is about for them. But if consumers let them get away with it, it will effectively shut down any real chance of us "little guys" competing with big business on the WWW. What glimpses of "a level playing field" will be long gone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:251226 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
