Ariel,
Knowing that you're quite a veteran in this field, I'm feeling you must
have inner knowledge which leads you to conclude that ISPs and TV
companies have the noble goal of providing customers with the best value
for their money, rather than maximizing shareholders value.
Is this so?
Ariel Biener wrote:
On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:22, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
The bandwidth capabilities from israel won't be depleted 20 years from now
(med). They have the capability they just want to earn more on you.
Yet, that bandwidth is not available to the ISPs, they have to buy the links,
and Med Nautilus needs to cover their costs of installing and maintaining
their submarine cables.
So, ISPs buy as much as they need, they do not have any spares.
If they'll continue with their policy, mass exodus will begin from
netvision and we will probably not hear about this nonsense again.
While this is possible, you should look up a similar policy set by British
Telecomm about a month or so ago.
The logic that some people take all the bandwidth is not sound. Today they
need more bandwidth and tommorow you will need more bandwidth. However,
when you'll need it you will cry out that the prices are too high for you.
This way, you have the option to use more bandwidth when you need to. I
prefer to pay more to have that future option.
No, what they are trying to stop is those people who do not "need it today but
do not need it tomorrow", but the people who "need it 24/7/365". Those people
buy a 256k or 512k package, and then download 24/7/365. So, if one calculates
the amount of bandwidth to buy (I am speaking about the ISP) in order to
supply proper speeds for their users, the "leecher" users (those who buy low
packages and download 24/7/365) are fucking up the statistics, since
overbooking is calculated based on the assumption that users do not download
non-stop (24/7/365).
Personally, I find this a good thing done by Netvision, and I hope the others
will follow suit. This will increase the income for the ISPs and allow them to
provide better services to the home users in the long run.
This whole issue reminds me of YES and HOT. The Israeli customer wants lower
prices all the time. So, in their battle for the customer, HOT and YES reduce
prices, and hurt their income. That being so, they do not have enough money
to buy quality content, so all we have to watch is mostly shit, while quality
content from large networks like HBO and such remains unavailable to us.
We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
And I will conclude with the immortal phrase: "You get what you pay for".
Oh, and for the ones who're looking for <HUMOR> tags, the above text was not
meant to be humoristic :)
--Ariel
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