ISPs have to buy bandwidth to allow for user demands. The fiber may have been there but likely they had to upsize circuits and routers to support the new speeds.
This would be very similar to say your users concluding everything is the same if they had say a 1Gb storage restriction and unknown to them you increased your disk capacity which enabled you to raise the restriction to 2 Gb so obviously the former restriction wasn’t needed. From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 1gbps+ traffic? The infrastructure and technology have always been there. It’s only been a matter of what was available for consumers. The ISP’s control the bottleneck. As I mentioned in the National Broadband thread, my ISP is AT&T. A year ago their max speed was 16Mbps. A year later their max speed is 24Mbps. AT&T didn’t go out and remove all of their fiber for new, faster fiber in a year. They control what speeds go where, thusly they control their profits. Just as they tried to charge for upload and download limits, which could still go into affect even though it originally bombed, they have the capability of manipulating the infrastructure to provide price points based on upgrade sales and promises of increased speeds. This has been going on for years. Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com <mailto:kandy.luk...@3-gig.com> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 1gbps+ traffic? How do you know that ISPs already have the infrastructure for such high-speed connections but are just holding out? From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 1gbps+ traffic? I think that’s the point I was trying to make before – what if you knew your ISP could provide that speed for you at a cost similar to what you pay now, yet they purposely withhold that speed because the only true selling point for ISP’s nowadays is increased speed at step-ladder costs? Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com <mailto:kandy.luk...@3-gig.com> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 1gbps+ traffic? Actually not joking. 100mbps is all I have been able to fathom to the Internet I know there are bigger but I actually thought above 100 they went away from copper to fiber. I just can not fathom that kind of speed and monthly bill........ NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ---- Content & Policy Scan by M+ Guardian ---- Millions of safe & clean messages delivered daily ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)--- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
