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gary wrote:
> "William Warren" <william_warren_nonoise@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:BUxmd.619816$8_6.101379@attbi_s04...
>
[snip]
>>A WiFi hotspot, however, can be used without damage or inconvenience
>>suffered by its owner, and I think there's a societal paradyme shift going
>>on, in which bandwidth is becoming inexpensive enough that it's not worth
>>the cost to deny it to others.
>
>
> As an aside, that's "paradigm", not "paradyme".
Noted, thanks.
[snip]
> There's no free lunch. If every home connection becomes a portal for dozens
> of end users, then two things happen:
>
> 1. Cable/DSL load rises much more rapidly then planned, requiring additional
> buildout.
> 2. The subscriber base to pay for it grows far more slowly then planned.
>
> The net result is that subscriber rates increase. I don't mind at all if
> someone else volunteers to pay more to subsidize free internet access, but
> if this free access raises my rates, it amounts to an unfair tax.
I agree. If I implied that I thought ADSL/Cable/whatever connections
should be shared with "dozens" of end users SO AS TO DENY THE ISP
REVENUE, then I wrote unclearly, and I apologize.
My argument is that when "everybody" has an always on, high speed
connection, that it will become a societal norm for people to share it
via WiFi, so as to afford mobile access to others who ALSO have always
on, high speed connections and who ALSO share them. In this scenario,
the ISP gains by selling pipes to multiple subscribers, and by the
increased revenue from value-added services that only make sense in an
environment where portability is taken for granted, such as paperless
menus in restaurants.
Nobody likes a freeloader, least of all me, but we all make exceptions
for the elderly, the infirm, and the disadvantaged, according to a set
of norms that change over time. I think those norms will change to make
shared WiFi something we all just do, like mowing our lawns.
I may be wrong. I hope not.
William
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gary wrote:
> "William Warren" <william_warren_nonoise@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:BUxmd.619816$8_6.101379@attbi_s04...
>
[snip]
>>A WiFi hotspot, however, can be used without damage or inconvenience
>>suffered by its owner, and I think there's a societal paradyme shift going
>>on, in which bandwidth is becoming inexpensive enough that it's not worth
>>the cost to deny it to others.
>
>
> As an aside, that's "paradigm", not "paradyme".
Noted, thanks.
[snip]
> There's no free lunch. If every home connection becomes a portal for dozens
> of end users, then two things happen:
>
> 1. Cable/DSL load rises much more rapidly then planned, requiring additional
> buildout.
> 2. The subscriber base to pay for it grows far more slowly then planned.
>
> The net result is that subscriber rates increase. I don't mind at all if
> someone else volunteers to pay more to subsidize free internet access, but
> if this free access raises my rates, it amounts to an unfair tax.
I agree. If I implied that I thought ADSL/Cable/whatever connections
should be shared with "dozens" of end users SO AS TO DENY THE ISP
REVENUE, then I wrote unclearly, and I apologize.
My argument is that when "everybody" has an always on, high speed
connection, that it will become a societal norm for people to share it
via WiFi, so as to afford mobile access to others who ALSO have always
on, high speed connections and who ALSO share them. In this scenario,
the ISP gains by selling pipes to multiple subscribers, and by the
increased revenue from value-added services that only make sense in an
environment where portability is taken for granted, such as paperless
menus in restaurants.
Nobody likes a freeloader, least of all me, but we all make exceptions
for the elderly, the infirm, and the disadvantaged, according to a set
of norms that change over time. I think those norms will change to make
shared WiFi something we all just do, like mowing our lawns.
I may be wrong. I hope not.
William
(Filter noise from my address for direct replies.)