Eli Marmor wrote: > Bad. > Very bad. > Contrary to Bezeq, who makes its big money out of frame-relay and > Sifranet, CATV doesn't dacrifice any source of income by giving high > upstream bandwidth.
Yes, it does. The cable network is designed for DOWNSTREAM, not upstream. The upstream bandwidth originaly was planned for "smart" cable boxes, so that you did not need a telephone connection to order pay-per-view programs. Internet was an afterthought. > A higher upstream, could bring many customers to the CATV, at the > expense of the users of ADSL. Why? with all the hassels of aDSL, especialy the lousy reliablility, etc, cable is simple and it works. Most people couldn't care less about upstream performance, they want to see their streaiming video and fast web page changes. > Moreover, this way the CATV can fight Bezeq and hurt it, in its > sensitive pocket. IMHO they have. I would recommend a cable modem to anyone. I wouldn't recommend aDSL to Yassir....... > And the ISP's would join such a deal happily, because the upstream > costs are much lower for them than the downstream costs. I don't know, I've got a good rate from Netvision, about 3x the cost of 56k (as if I ever saw that) dial-up, 80k (1024) bytes per second throughput versus 4-5k (1024) bytes per second on dial-up. The cost of Bezeq is 99 NIS/month plus VAT, cable is 130. To me it's a "no brainer". > I have no explanation why the CATV followed Bezeq's bandwidths, instead > of giving lower downstream and higher upstream (or even symmetric in > both directions), which Bezeq wouldn't be able to fight. The CATV could > even launch an extra-premium deal that gives 256Kb upstream (or even > 512Kb) for a price which is a little higher than ADSL, but much lower > than FR/Sifranet. Simple, it's what the market will bear. Without sacrficing Bezeq's cash cows (sifranet (point to point fibre optic) and frame relay, upon the altar of cheap internet, a religion which has destroyed many a telcom. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
