Comments on: How Big is AT&T? http://gigaom.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Earthling - EarthLink blog http://gigaom.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115903 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:45:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115903 Preserving Net Neutrality After ATT/Bellsouth

The potential problem for consumers isn’t the huge market share in and of itself; after all, that’s what many companies eventually want in their respective industry and they shouldn’t be denigrated just for finding a way to create a large customer…

]]> By: Saul Weiner http://gigaom.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115902 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:50:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115902 I don’t know if I buy into all the worry. The telephony market can’t be categorized as it was. It’s now part of a much bigger communication smarket where these folks are fighting a do or die battle against everyone from internet companies to cable companies. You can’t use old metrics for this. it makes no sense.

]]> By: Jeff http://gigaom.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115901 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:40:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/how-big-is-att/#comment-115901 Speaking of the merger, I was just catching up with digg and saw this from last week:

http://telephonyonline.com/iptv/news/BellSouthVODcosts_030706/

(from http://www.digg.com/technology/AverageUser:2GBmonth,CostingBellSouth_$1 discussion)

“The average IPTV user will likely consume about 224 gigabytes per month, he added, at a monthly cost to carriers of $112, a giant leap from the less than $5 attributed to Internet use. If that content were high-definition video, the average user would be consuming more than 1 terabyte per month at a cost to carriers of $560 per month.

“Clearly that’s not what the average user is going to pay per month for their video service,” [BellSouth's Chief Architect Henry] Kafka said. “That’s why we need help.”

What’s new? More lies from the Bells. This is a farce — they promise more for less after their merger, but that’s clearly not what the consumer’s going to get. Rather than more for less, this will end up being more for MUCH, MUCH more. AT&T was claiming to go bring more video in to the BellSouth region, but here’s BellSouth’s Chief Architect saying it’s not cost effective or scalable.

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