Tim Wunder wrote: > <SNIP> > > If they manage to work out a deal with the cable companies, I doubt the cable > companies would raise the monhtly fees (much). If anyone is making that "ton > of money" from broadband, it's the cable companies. Their costs are, > essentially, just for support of the cable lines. The very same cable lines > they have for TV. Their costs to provide high speed internet access pale in > comparison to @Home's. Yet, they get the majority of the monthly fees. They > can take a fairly large hit on what they pay Excite@Home and still not need > to raise their rates. <SNIP>
Not necessarily the case. Rogers cable, who have about half a million subscribers, are quite happy they've finally been given the legal grounds to break their agreement with @home. They were offering a cable internet service, when @home was unheard of in Canada. They originally made the decision to join the @home consortium in order to "obtain content" in the form of a portal site and whatnot, not for the management of their networks. Since joining @home, their single largest benefit was the marketing value of the @home name, however the customer satisfaction levels when slowly and consistently down since they joined up. I for one, will gladly see my service divorced from @home, it was their s#!t email servers that led to my purchasing and hosting of my own domain. I was missing mails, receiving replies to the list, before the post I'd sent, other emails were arriving 10 (yes ten) days late. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
