[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[H. A. Story]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

>David Corbin wrote:
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>>On Thursday 22 June 2006 05:50 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>>David A. De Graaf wrote:
>>>Comcast isn't in the business of predicting the network needs
>>>20 years from now, what do you think they will need for per-household
>>>bandwith in 5, 10, 15, and 20 years?  See, it ain't easy.
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>>But they are.  As soon as they decided to sell internet bandwidth/access, the 
>>initiate the business of predciting network needs.
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>My point was that it costs money to put effort behind that sort of 
>analysis, and that area of growth is so indeterminable (compared to 
>forecasting wireline usage) that I doubt it is given enough weight by 
>the share holders.
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>How many man-hours would it take to determine average per-household 
>Internet bandwidth requirements in the year 2017 in the markets of 
>Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Atlanta?  See, it's near-impossible to just 
>figure out how much to spend to analyze the need, let alone actually 
>performing the analysis.  Even then, (IMHO) it's just a gamble at best, 
>so why throw a million man-hours at it versus a few hundred?
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>-Jim P.
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I think they do look at the predicted subcriber base.  As an example a 
few years back a co-work had Broadband long before me.  The only 
difference I could tell was that I was in a sub-division and he was in 
an apartment complex. 

And I am sure we all know the if you have a residental broadband and you 
have the bandwidth pegged 24/7.  You will at some point gt a nasty 
letter from your ISP.  Just what I have heard in some cases..  LOL

Adrin