What I really think the Cable Cos are doing is trying to buy Public and government support, using the old Telco trick.
Make the public think Comcast is going to provide the holy grail t oconsumers, so support them, and don't beat them up in upcomming legislation. I can see it already... "Dont pass Network Neutrality laws, and we'll give teh public 50 mbps, really honest we will, or at least until after we put our competition out of business, and change our mind." :- ) I think in regard to NetNeutrality... What we need to pass is equal oportunity offers. If they offer consumer 50mb they have to offer provider 50 mbps. Cable COs are a subsidized utility. SHouldn;t be able to be selective on what they offer who. If they want to port block so be it, jsut do it equallity. Take away the no-reseller clause. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps >I should have prefaced that with the word "some". > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Travis Johnson > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:35 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > > > CableOne in my area does NOT offer service to me. I called and asked... > they specifically said "not to you". > > Travis > Microserv > > Mike Hammett wrote: > Cable companies already offer BGP fiber connections to anyone (including > other operators). Comcast and Charter are two that I know off the top of > my > head that do. Comcast installs fiber to your prem and is $1000 for 5 > megs, > up to a full GigE. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:15 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps > > > Oh boy are they digging themselves a big hole! > > All of the money is in the TV side of things and they are making it > easier > for people to watch TV via the web instead of via the cable co. On top > of > that they are talking about chewing up 4 TV channels PER CUSTOMER!!!! > Wowsers. > Not per custommer rather for the entire node. Currently one channel > is shared among many. In future 4 will be shared among many. > > It's going to be amazing to watch where all of this is going to end up. > > This is actually great news for the smaller wisps out there. $200 50 meg > connections. Very nice. I'd drop my $1000 10 meg connection for that! > Or > at the very least, buy a very high speed backup link. > Me thinks it would be a very cold day in .... that they would give > you > more then a small handfull of IP's with that or let you do something > like BGP. > > Matt > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! 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