I am on the other side of this. I am in an area with cable, dsl, and fiber. My lowest plan is 79.99 which is priced the same as my competition. People leave comcast because of the service. They leave dsl because it is slow. When my competition starts pricing their plans with caps I will follow suit. Until then I use Butch's QOS and the wimax QOS to shape traffic to give the customer the best possible experience. We are going to have to evolve and grow to meet customer need and expectation to continue to evolve. That includes staying on top of technology. I am already planning an LTE trial this summer that will hopefully allow me to provide what is needed for a couple more years. I feel that this will go the way of the computer....every few years you may have to scrap everything and start over....or add new equipment to existing infrastructure and sell higher speed plans to the people that want it. Comcast is already rolling out 50 and 100 meg plans here.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Roger Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > I keep seeing complaints from operators talking about the woes of > Netflix breaking business models etc. > > >From certain comments I've seen, many of you seem to be looking at > this wrong. No-one should ever have sold unlimited data. Unlimited > data pricing is like T1 or T3 pricing. You can't get unlimited > broadband for $50/mo. This was destined to fail from the beginning. > > Anyone who couldn't see TV ever going over Internet lines was blind. > And we're only seeing the early beginnings of it. There's going to be > more and more HD stuff. > > Netflix hasn't broken anything. People's service plans were already > broken. You were selling stuff you couldn't provide. You were > effectively selling T1 lines for $50/mo. Bandwidth usage was always > going to go up. Weather it's Netflix or something else. It was only > time before your business model would fail. We have had bandwidth > limits posted on our website since 2007. > > http://g5i.net/internet.php > > People are now starting to hit them. The limits are fairly high. We > have about 5 or 6 people out of 300 who are hitting them each month > now. We're going to start throttling to 256k when the cap is met. That > way they can still do general Internet stuff, without being able to > watch video. And they can call up and pay extra in 10Gb increments to > get their high speed back. > > At the end of the day people, you are paid to provide an Internet > connection. Be that to Netflix or Hulu or be that just for email. Sell > something that you are able to provide. > > Take advantage of the situation. I'm getting more and more people > signing up for my $80/mo package. That means more revenue so I can buy > more bandwidth. We're trying to accommodate online video as best we > can. > > Don't get me wrong, the sudden leap in bandwidth usage has caught me > without enough bandwidth. But it hasn't broken my business model... > yet. > > I have seen people talking about triple play. I don't think that's the > way forward. I think the cell companies are eventually going to have > to become dumb pipes, and sell just mobile broadband. People will use > VoIP instead of voice minutes. > > Be a dumb pipe, and offer VoIP, also. Let people get their video > content from online providers. I think this is the way forward. > > Thanks, > Roger > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Jeremie Chism TritonDataLink
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