Just another one of those car analogies from the private sector - TopicsExpress



          

Just another one of those car analogies from the private sector broadband providers. There is a long history of the providers telling consumers what they need. Add this quote from Bill Esbeck to the rest: Esbeck suggested university officials are going beyond merely replacement costs, equating it with replacing a Chevy network with a Cadillac network. Perhaps one of the nations largest research institutions in the world (>$1 billion per year), requires a Cadillac network? “What are you going to do with 20 Mbps? It’s like having an Indy race car and you don’t have the racetrack to drive it on. We are going to be offering 3 Meg….most users won’t use that” - SBCs Midwest Networking President, Kirk Brannock, 2004, talking about the Pabst Farm Development in Wisconsin “Its like buying a Jaguar when a Ford Focus would be perfectly adequate” - Andrew Petersen, spokesman for TDS Telecom, about 1 Gbps Networks, 2012 leadertelegram/news/front_page/article_35246bb6-4438-11e3-a74a-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:47:01 +0000

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