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Monday, February 11, 2008

Bandwith or not ?

Disclosure: I own a small piece of NuMetra

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . WYSIWYB | PBS

"In the end, what NuMetra's metrics will show is what we already know -- that there isn't enough ISP Internet bandwidth. The key is getting what we pay for and actually paying for it. The current system is built on marketing lies, and we're being told more lies about how to solve the resulting problems. The problem isn't transit costs or content distribution networks or peer to peer -- that's just BS.

I hope NuMetra is successful, but if it isn't here's an incredible business opportunity for a national broadband ISP with rational bandwidth provisioning that will simply acknowledge reality and fill a need.

What You Buy Is What You Get (WYBIWYG). It might work."

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