No, the stupid part is USING ringtones. No one wants to hear anyone else's crappy taste in music. Everyone needs to put their phones on vibrate and STFU!
Bullshit! At even a paltry 100mbps commit, bandwidth can be purchased by ANYONE for $10 a megabit on economy carriers like Cogent or Hurricane Electric. If you up the commit to a gigabit, it's as little as $8 per megabit. And that's assuming a small, unpeered outfit that has to pay for every single packet. Large tier-1 providers like AOL & Verizon have peering agreements with other tier-1 networks and they effectively DO NOT PAY for a lot of their traffic.
Even a small consumer ISP can turn a bandwidth profit by charging $25 per megabit for unmetered, dedicated bandwidth. (assuming bandwidth is about 50% of expenses - as a small webhost, it's about 75% for me, but that's a different market) A reasonable 4:1 oversell would probably provide a substantial operating margin. The problems we are seeing now are caused by CORPORATE GREED, pure and simple. The big ISPs like Comcast are overselling at 100:1 ratios or more and complaining because video streaming and P2P are eating into their windfall profits.
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No, the stupid part is USING ringtones. No one wants to hear anyone else's crappy taste in music. Everyone needs to put their phones on vibrate and STFU!
Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only old guy here...
Bullshit! At even a paltry 100mbps commit, bandwidth can be purchased by ANYONE for $10 a megabit on economy carriers like Cogent or Hurricane Electric. If you up the commit to a gigabit, it's as little as $8 per megabit. And that's assuming a small, unpeered outfit that has to pay for every single packet. Large tier-1 providers like AOL & Verizon have peering agreements with other tier-1 networks and they effectively DO NOT PAY for a lot of their traffic.
Even a small consumer ISP can turn a bandwidth profit by charging $25 per megabit for unmetered, dedicated bandwidth. (assuming bandwidth is about 50% of expenses - as a small webhost, it's about 75% for me, but that's a different market) A reasonable 4:1 oversell would probably provide a substantial operating margin. The problems we are seeing now are caused by CORPORATE GREED, pure and simple. The big ISPs like Comcast are overselling at 100:1 ratios or more and complaining because video streaming and P2P are eating into their windfall profits.
Fuck them in their stupid asses.