On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 5:06 PM -0800 2005-03-30, Bill Nash wrote: > > > I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm > > reimbursing my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly > > tithe. > > No, that's not true. Not if your ISP has oversold their upstream > bandwidth, and a lot of people start using VOIP. > > In that case, your ISP is dependant on keeping you fat, dumb, > happy, barefoot, and pregnant in the kitchen, taking whatever > semidigested pabulum they choose to feed you, and if you start > getting uppity by actually thinking for yourself and using something > like VOIP, then they're going to have to bitch-slap you back into > your rightful place under their thumb.
That is fairly entertaining. Perhaps you could provide the financial breakdown for ANY DSL business model that doesn't rely on over-subscription? Q. How many, full-on 6 Meg DSL subscribers can you put on a 45 meg ATM connection without oversubscription? ;) -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST