I don't need the government "fixing" it with additional artificial and damaging influence. There was a time when copper was expensive and small coal-towns weren't going to get dial-tone. Those days are long gone. Let's back out of the telecom market slowly and rely upon (well litigated and settles) anti-trust laws to ensure we don't get hosed.
The cost of outside plant is amortized over 20 or 30 years.... and banks line up to underwrite large installations for established publicly owned companies.
Please mod this way up. The "new cable mafia" is the ISP. This North Jersey mafia-style business, with their willing lemmings on the FCC amounts to nothing but CRONY CAPITALISM. It has to stop.
Remember when cable was relatively inexpensive, back in the 80's and part of the 90's? Back then, the cable company provided clear reception (read: bandwidth) and access to several dozen channels (read: content providers). The "cable business" was aggressively seeking content, because that's why people subscribed to cable. In those days, cable providers PAID CONTENT PROVIDERS
Roll the clock forward to the later-90's, the infrastructure boom was over and the local cable provider OWNS the last mile. Revenue growth from new subscribers stagnates. So, in true "pipe-to-the-knee-caps mafia style", cable providers turned to the content providers and said, "we own the 'last mile', NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY US, or we will not carry your channel/signal." Back then, they gave the SAME LAME-ASS EXCUSE: "channel-space (read: bandwidth) is getting scarce and we need money to expand our channel-space (bandwidth), otherwise we may have to cut you [content provider] out of the channel-line-up." (FLASH BACK: Remember the commercials from the "stations" like saying, "keep this channel as part of your basic package, call your cable company and bitch them out."?)
Shift your perspective just a little, do you think any of this would be happening if Netflix were a subscription service via the Cable Provider.... nope. Cause the troll would already be extracting the toll.
You nailed it. UPS is scott-free. All UPS have secured federal facilities into which all cross-boarder shipment pass and "you don't need to know whats going on in there." Bahhhhh, don't piss on us and call it rain, we know better.
This is the similar argument made by authors that can't get a manuscript published, by one of the larger houses.
In the simplest terms, markets (in free economic systems) are constantly be reshaped by innovators. The book market is only becoming more efficient and all authors will have to price their wares according to demand, not some artificial pricing structure based on the authors reputation (i.e. I wouldn't value something ghost written for Hillary Clinton or Al Franken as toilet paper).
Must agree. Much of the destruction is avoidable by good forestry practice and controlled burns. But the environmental weenies will sue you and keep you in court; long enough for everyones homes and businesses to be burned out. Then they will sue you again, to block your ability to rebuild: which is their ultimate goal.
I am so sick of these announcements. Send samples to Underwriters and USPTO and lets test it out. These press releases are usually pumped by the marketing folks to provide a lift to the share price, prior to a major financing event.... yawn. The yellow rain, it's usually urine. LOL
I can tell you that we transferred terabytes of adult content data per day. In the mid-90's, we had to switch to an ISP in silicone alley with multiple OC-xx's coming in from multiple carriers to allow for us to not destroy carrier NAPS.... it was pretty funny and pretty cool.
Roll the clock forward to the 2000's. People have traded-in their 56k modems for digital subscriber lines (DSL) and cable/fiber for the "last mile." Now big bandwidth is ubiquitous, opening the market up for companies to deliver on-demand digital content to a ginormous audience of 10's of millions of people (read: we are past the early-adopter phase and well into momentum). But, sadly, the guys who "paved the digital roads with fiber on the last mile."
The cost of carrying this bandwidth has gone way-way-way down, comparatively. And it became a commodity. And noooooooow, the ISP's want a taste of the action. That's the bottom line. The race to install fiber "outside plant" to convey big bandwidth has left a lot of player broke or DOSOR (dead on side of road). At this point, they are turning to "mafia-style" tactics and the appointee's at the FCC (whom all want patronage jobs at these various carriers, when the new administration gets elected) is all too happy to oblige them.
Take the blinders off, we are getting screwed by our government, AGAIN.
Well, anonymous coward, Russia never enforced our IP rights to any of the tech they "procured" during the Cold War. So, game on. Putin is being a douche by annexing Ukraine, because he knows that President Obama doesn't have the sack to take it to the next level.... so again I say, game on.
The Russian already delivered several and we have tested them on our rack. We should be able to reverse engineer them, without help from the Russians. Pound sand, Ruskies.
At what point will we all admit that the UN is an experiment, with results that indicate the need to stop pumping cash into this failed debating body?
Can anyone site a single, positive accomplishment for which the UN was/is responsible? Not really. Even if you want to point to the "climate change studies".... that was simply a compendium of other peoples (flawed) work on the subject.
Is it time to admit that the UN is useless? Iran on the human rights council? Seriously?
I have worked in both the private and public sectors. Public (i.e. gov't agencies) are FAAAAAAAR worse at IT than business. When you take away to the profit motive and the ability to apply pressure with lawsuits.... you have a unique environment filled with less-than-competent managers, directors and doers.... It would simply AMAZE you....
What happens is that the companies, on their deathbeds, make bad financial decisions and get in bed with mafia financiers. They then assign patent rights to patent troll lawyers, who's entire living is made by these bullshit claims.
Good luck. Sounds like Zuckerberg has more money and better lawyers than you! Game, set, match.
If you do some simple math, you will see that the rate of return on a 2-year-with-phone is somewhere around 20%-35% per year. That's a huge profit.
No if you do some more math, and subtract out the cost of the phones (with margin) you will see that the profit-line for the rate plans is pretty low, which means they are making plenty of gross margin on the phone and the plan.
Same is therefore true for the BYOP plan.
They are only losing money on paper, do to the heavy-weight of band license costs at auction and the investments in infrastructure and plant.
If the green-weenie's could get over themselves and let the grown-ups transport the stuff to that site, we would be fine.
Have you seen the destructive tests that they have been done by the Feds with the rod-transport vessels? Hit by a 55 MPH freight train then placed in a pool of diesel fuel and burnt for two hours... still didn't impinge upon the contents???!
We have a viable solution, now we need to clear the way for the adults in the room to use it.
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And posted them onto the Internet. There's your proof. Now go re-inject every device on your bank network LOL
This is great.... it's time to make everyone equal. I am a Marxist and don't understand why education is some type of protected class.
I don't need the government "fixing" it with additional artificial and damaging influence. There was a time when copper was expensive and small coal-towns weren't going to get dial-tone. Those days are long gone. Let's back out of the telecom market slowly and rely upon (well litigated and settles) anti-trust laws to ensure we don't get hosed.
The cost of outside plant is amortized over 20 or 30 years.... and banks line up to underwrite large installations for established publicly owned companies.
Please mod this way up. The "new cable mafia" is the ISP. This North Jersey mafia-style business, with their willing lemmings on the FCC amounts to nothing but CRONY CAPITALISM. It has to stop.
Remember when cable was relatively inexpensive, back in the 80's and part of the 90's? Back then, the cable company provided clear reception (read: bandwidth) and access to several dozen channels (read: content providers). The "cable business" was aggressively seeking content, because that's why people subscribed to cable. In those days, cable providers PAID CONTENT PROVIDERS
Roll the clock forward to the later-90's, the infrastructure boom was over and the local cable provider OWNS the last mile. Revenue growth from new subscribers stagnates. So, in true "pipe-to-the-knee-caps mafia style", cable providers turned to the content providers and said, "we own the 'last mile', NOW YOU HAVE TO PAY US, or we will not carry your channel/signal." Back then, they gave the SAME LAME-ASS EXCUSE: "channel-space (read: bandwidth) is getting scarce and we need money to expand our channel-space (bandwidth), otherwise we may have to cut you [content provider] out of the channel-line-up." (FLASH BACK: Remember the commercials from the "stations" like saying, "keep this channel as part of your basic package, call your cable company and bitch them out."?)
Shift your perspective just a little, do you think any of this would be happening if Netflix were a subscription service via the Cable Provider.... nope. Cause the troll would already be extracting the toll.
Firing the right people, increase profitability...
You nailed it. UPS is scott-free. All UPS have secured federal facilities into which all cross-boarder shipment pass and "you don't need to know whats going on in there." Bahhhhh, don't piss on us and call it rain, we know better.
In the simplest terms, markets (in free economic systems) are constantly be reshaped by innovators. The book market is only becoming more efficient and all authors will have to price their wares according to demand, not some artificial pricing structure based on the authors reputation (i.e. I wouldn't value something ghost written for Hillary Clinton or Al Franken as toilet paper).
Must agree. Much of the destruction is avoidable by good forestry practice and controlled burns. But the environmental weenies will sue you and keep you in court; long enough for everyones homes and businesses to be burned out. Then they will sue you again, to block your ability to rebuild: which is their ultimate goal.
Another waste of your money, brought to you by the brilliant people that run the US federal government... Idiots, most of them.
Just goes to prove that the American electorate is STUUUUUUUPIIIIIIID.
That should free the rest of us up, to live out the next 20 years without them destroying our lives and economies.
Wow, must people anthro climate change there, too!!!
I am so sick of these announcements. Send samples to Underwriters and USPTO and lets test it out. These press releases are usually pumped by the marketing folks to provide a lift to the share price, prior to a major financing event.... yawn. The yellow rain, it's usually urine. LOL
Roll the clock forward to the 2000's. People have traded-in their 56k modems for digital subscriber lines (DSL) and cable/fiber for the "last mile." Now big bandwidth is ubiquitous, opening the market up for companies to deliver on-demand digital content to a ginormous audience of 10's of millions of people (read: we are past the early-adopter phase and well into momentum). But, sadly, the guys who "paved the digital roads with fiber on the last mile."
The cost of carrying this bandwidth has gone way-way-way down, comparatively. And it became a commodity. And noooooooow, the ISP's want a taste of the action. That's the bottom line. The race to install fiber "outside plant" to convey big bandwidth has left a lot of player broke or DOSOR (dead on side of road). At this point, they are turning to "mafia-style" tactics and the appointee's at the FCC (whom all want patronage jobs at these various carriers, when the new administration gets elected) is all too happy to oblige them.
Take the blinders off, we are getting screwed by our government, AGAIN.
Well, anonymous coward, Russia never enforced our IP rights to any of the tech they "procured" during the Cold War. So, game on. Putin is being a douche by annexing Ukraine, because he knows that President Obama doesn't have the sack to take it to the next level.... so again I say, game on.
The Russian already delivered several and we have tested them on our rack. We should be able to reverse engineer them, without help from the Russians. Pound sand, Ruskies.
At what point will we all admit that the UN is an experiment, with results that indicate the need to stop pumping cash into this failed debating body? Can anyone site a single, positive accomplishment for which the UN was/is responsible? Not really. Even if you want to point to the "climate change studies".... that was simply a compendium of other peoples (flawed) work on the subject. Is it time to admit that the UN is useless? Iran on the human rights council? Seriously?
The subject of my post sums it up.
I have to agree with that post. The place is way over populated... Hopefully China and India will follow the trend.
I have worked in both the private and public sectors. Public (i.e. gov't agencies) are FAAAAAAAR worse at IT than business. When you take away to the profit motive and the ability to apply pressure with lawsuits.... you have a unique environment filled with less-than-competent managers, directors and doers.... It would simply AMAZE you....
What happens is that the companies, on their deathbeds, make bad financial decisions and get in bed with mafia financiers. They then assign patent rights to patent troll lawyers, who's entire living is made by these bullshit claims.
Good luck. Sounds like Zuckerberg has more money and better lawyers than you! Game, set, match.
No if you do some more math, and subtract out the cost of the phones (with margin) you will see that the profit-line for the rate plans is pretty low, which means they are making plenty of gross margin on the phone and the plan.
Same is therefore true for the BYOP plan.
They are only losing money on paper, do to the heavy-weight of band license costs at auction and the investments in infrastructure and plant.
If the green-weenie's could get over themselves and let the grown-ups transport the stuff to that site, we would be fine. Have you seen the destructive tests that they have been done by the Feds with the rod-transport vessels? Hit by a 55 MPH freight train then placed in a pool of diesel fuel and burnt for two hours... still didn't impinge upon the contents???! We have a viable solution, now we need to clear the way for the adults in the room to use it.
So true.