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more on worth reading "A Piece of the Action" (was: Charging "content providers" ...)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:26:06 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Jeff Schult <jss () tftb com> Date: January 17, 2006 3:22:07 PM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] more on worth reading "A Piece of the Action" (was: Charging "content providers" ...)
Reply-To: Jeff Schult <jss () tftb com> Dear Dave,My own recollection from having worked at a telco or two on the Internet side of things is that they had their eye on multiple tiers of service almost from the moment that DSL became a potential product -- and that this was a factor in the telcos all (curiously?) opting to use and specify PPPoE rather than the simpler cableco DHCP distribution.
Someone closer to the fray than I am now could perhaps shed more light on this, but I suspect that the telcos have more control over the deliver of metered bandwidth to individual customers than do cablecos?
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