Michael Thomas wrote:
On 02/28/2015 08:59 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
20 years ago was into AOL's prime, so yes they did.
Great, let's re-evaluate the system when demand necessitates it. For
many systems, it's literally as simple as changing how many channels
are allocated to what directions.
By that logic, we would have been running 486s with 32 gigs of RAM
because some people today use that much. *shakes head* Obviously the
majority of the dissent here works with OPM.
The point is that the incumbents (= telephants) at the time looked at
even the
minuscule AOL user base with disdain saying that their market share
was irrelevant.
Even into the early 2000's these same guys thought that voice was the
only thing
that really mattered because the new fangled internet users were
outliers from their
pots bread and butter. We now know those outliers were important.
Being dismissive
of them is dangerous.
Actually, I think the incumbents do get it, at this point - at least
Verizon does. FIOS is a pretty nice offering, and they offer some
pretty high speeds, both up and down. It's just that they've stopped
their buildout with the large markets; but they've been a power behind
the state level anti-municipal broadband laws. Kind of annoying that,
in areas where they have no intention of building out, they want to
stand in the way of folks who want to do it themselves.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
