[LINK] Business fetishism (was Re: LINK] Four Corners NBN)

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Fernando Cassia
> Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2011 2:37 PM
> To: Richard Chirgwin; Link
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Business fetishism (was Re: LINK] Four 
> Corners NBN)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Richard Chirgwin 
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > In highly-developed broadband markets, consumers outnumber 
> businesses 
> > - usually by about 10:1 - both in subscribers and revenue. The real 
> > breakthroughs, in market sustainability, scale, application 
> diversity 
> > etc, come from pervasive networks that connect everybody.
> 
> It´s the upstream, s******** (seriously)
> 
> Traditional residential broadband services, as envisioned by 
> the for-profit telcos using HFC networks or ADSL is 
> *assymetric*, with upload speeds barely enough to send email 
> and do video chat with crappy resolution (often 1/4´th to a 
> 10th of the download speed). That is, that approach assumes 
> consumers to be "downloaders" of information, passive 
> consumers of Youtube or web sites.
> 
> The true revolution will be when, thanks to FTTH, those 
> artificial limits are removed, and residential customers 
> enjoy high-speed-upstream connections (as provided by 
> symmetric FTTH links). Thus the barrier between "business 
> grade" internet links and residential broadband is 
> eliminated, and ANYONE can become a true "services provider" 
> on the global Network.
> 
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1016487/home-broadband-customer
s-are-crippled-vint-cerf-reckons

Just my $0.02

Fernando Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone. Damn it. You've ruined a perfectly
good bottleneck.
Google TV has just announced it's public Channels...
Most linkers would be aware that Big Brother and others of the "Real
Life TV" ilk were started in response to the great Television script
writers strike...
Therefore, as millions of "Real Life TV" channels would put the TV
broadcasters and cable companies out of business, the only way to
bottleneck the Evil "G" empire is limit the upstream... 

Don't you amigos know anything ???   ;-)