On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mark Newton wrote:
Thought experiment: With $250 per megabit per month transit and $30 -
$50 per month tail costs, what would _you_ do to create the perfect
internet industry?
I would fix the problem, ie get more competition into these two areas
where the prices are obv
> AU's infrastructure has a long been a quagmire of political fumbling and
> organised chaos.
hey, i thought it was great of you folk to take joe nacio, convicted
felon, off our hands.
randy
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Martin Barry wrote:
> > At a certain point, the deployment cost of your telco network is covered,
> > and it is no longer reasonable to be paying $50/line/month for mere access
> > to the copper.
>
> nice rhetoric. can you come and convince our politicians of that?
>
I th
$quoted_author = "Joe Greco" ;
>
> The real problem is the ability of users to adopt new killer apps. This
> eventually breaks down to issues of "how long is it reasonable for users
> to fund that shiny telco network at $50/line/month" and things like that,
> because rather than solving the prob
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:33:19AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
> Well, since I didn't insist that you follow any definition of "reasonable",
> and in fact I started out by saying
>
> : Continued reliance on broadband users using tiny percentages of their
> : broadband connection certainly makes
> > > Comparative to Milwaukee, I'd be guessing delivering high performance
> > > internet and making enough money to fund expansion and eat is harder at
> > > a non US ISP. It's harder, but there's nothing wrong with it. It compels
> > > you to get inventive.
> >
> > The costs to provide DSL up
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> > However, it is equally possible that there'll be some newfangled killer
> > app that comes along. At some point, this will present a problem. All
> > the self-justification in the world will not matter when the customers
> > want to be able to do som
