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Telco's Arrogant Stand on Content
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:50:49 -0500
Never attribute to deep plots when corporate incompetence can explain it.
BTW after a whole day of trying to get Verizon to do anything except after 2 minutes of pushing buttons and getting a busy signal, or a call again, I called Comcast, got immediate answer, and decided to switch my telephone service to Comcast.
Dave Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: January 3, 2006 3:23:51 PM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Telco's Arrogant Stand on Content Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com [Note: This comment comes from reader Tom Williams. DLH]
From: Tom Williams <Tom () AirNetworking com> Date: January 3, 2006 10:20:33 AM PST To: dewayne () warpspeed com Subject: Re: Telco's Arrogant Stand on Content Dewayne Hendricks wrote:[Note: This comment comes from reader Andrew Odlyzko. DLH]P.S. There are lots of other comments one could make about this piece by Budde. For example, his rosy prediction for tele-presence flies in the face of numerous failures in video telephony. But that is another subject.Using CU-SeeMe on a Macintosh in the late (or maybe it was the mid) 1990s, I had expected those problems to go away by 2002. It appears to me that two major contributing factors to the current inability of video telephony to get off the ground are, at least for us "consumers," (1) Asymmetric bandwidth (remember when it was called "ADSL?") and (2) Lack of "real" public addresses. As a result, instead of being able to use a $50 camera and a $20 headset to call a buddy over the Internet, he or I must fiddle with our NAT routers and hope there's enough upstream bandwidth at each end to make it worth the time. And if that's the case for us Seasoned Professionals, guess how likely it is for Joe Sixpack to use this medium to call Grandma? If I were into conspiracy theories, I would start babbling at this point about how the Big Businesses have kept address space and outgoing bandwidth from us in order to keep us as "consumers" instead of members of a network. For now, I guess I'll just think it.
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