Legality: Was Comcast/etc....
Marvin Bellamy
Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com
Fri Jan 25 19:19:16 CST 2002
I think that there's a case here. Comcast provides a service to a
point, your modem. After that, it's yours to use. If I split my phone
line (not a separate jack), and and run a line to my kitchen, SWB can't
charge me. The service is the same. The difference being SWB service
is based on a static account; Comcast is bandwidth. If I have problems
with my ISP, I WILL take this court. It's just like SWB/DSL capping
mail server and newsgroup bandwidth and reselling that bandwidth to
other customers.
Bradley Miller wrote:
>At 12:19 PM 1/25/02 -0600, JD Runyan wrote:
>
>>I don't totally disagree with your idea, but your commodity analogy is
>>
>flawed.
>
>>Bandwidth is not a consumable like gasoline, electricity, food, etc. It is
>>more like a highway. When it rush hour, more people are on the highway, thus
>>traffic moves slower. During the day, fewer people are on the highway,
>>
>and thus
>
>>traffic can move at more rapid speed. The road does not go away, nor does
>>
>it change
>
>>in some way, because it is more heavily used. Neither does bandwidth go
>>
>away, it just
>
>>offers less speed when their are more users. When I receive 4MB of data
>>
>from some
>
>>site on the Internet, I do not consume 4MB of bandwidth that cannot be
>>
>regained. I
>
>>only use some portion of the bandwidth for a fixed amount of time, and then
>>return it unchanged. A more accurate analogy would be a car lease. You
>>
>lease
>
>>a car over a certain time, and you have a mileage limit. If you go over
>>
>that limit
>
>>you then pay a premium for that overage. You could look at us leasing the
>>
>Internet
>
>>connection, and they could monitor the transfer volumes, and then charge a
>>
>premium
>
>>for those that go over.
>>
>
>Very good point. But as in car leases, you can pick what you drive. If
>you pick a Metro to lease, it's not going to have the same costs as a
>Porsche. Likewise, if you pick a Metro you are going to accept the fact
>that you are only going to be able to go about, say 95-100 mph. Meanwhile
>you can crank that Porsche to 150++ mph.
>
>I think the "pay for overage" model would be easier to adopt. I say this
>as I stream MP3's via Shoutcast to my PC and download them to harddrive. ;-)
>
>-- Bradley Miller
>
>
>
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