On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:07:40 -0500, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:
Whenever they split or combine a CMTS or head-end...
Shouldn't matter unless they're moving things across DHCP servers. (which is likely from what I've heard about TWC, and seen from my own modems. In fact, the addresses in my office changed last week; we aren't paying for statics.)
I actually tend to doubt it. All of the people I've talked to from the major operators have said that the charges in IPv4 were not a revenue source, they were an effort to discourage the consumption of the addresses and/or the use of static addresses and to try and recover the costs of dealing with them in cases where customers were willing to pay.
Yeah, we all say that. *grin* But I went and looked at the numbers... it was several times my yearly salary, per month @ a business ISP. I would assume with residential, people are more cost sensitive and won't pay for address space they won't use. (but I know first hand that's not entirely true.)
