This is imminent. The questions is: whose network? -RickG On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: > One thing you can bank on, it WILL take hold. > > The need for more Bandwidth won't be stopped anytime soon, I believe. > Eventually most if not all communications will run over the same network, > which if you think about it, all the communications out there seem to touch > the internet at least in part. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Clint Ricker > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:21 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality > > For the mainstream ISPs (the big RBOCs and MSOs), their bandwidth costs are > very, very low and are a small fraction of their overall costs. However, > that statement does ignore the costs of perpetually upgrading their network > to handle larger volumes of bandwidth. From a cost perspective, that is the > main motivation for the big players to shape traffic. However, even that is > small compared to the potential loss of revenue if "over the top" video > takes hold. > > -Clint > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Matt <lm7...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > It's back.... >> > >> > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552503,00.html?test=latestnews >> >> I am just waiting for them to say bitcaps are a no no. When you think >> about it with a bit cap you cannot really use the Internet to >> completely replace the catv or dish service. Some consumers I am sure >> are going to say that's not fair and some clueless law makers will >> likely believe them. >> >> I have already heard some 'expert' IT people on blogs brag that >> bandwidth costs ISP's virtually nothing and the only reason for >> bitcaps is to prevent competing video services from taking market >> share. >> >> 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! 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! 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/ >
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