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Comcast has limits too and it costs them real money to raise those limits. Pulling new fiber is not free, even adding a wavelength to existing fiber has costs.
by Johnny555 11y ago
Comcast has limits too and it costs them real money to raise those limits. Pulling new fiber is not free, even adding a wavelength to existing fiber has costs. Their incremental cost to add capacity may be less than the incremental cost for a cellular company to purchase more spectrum (likely from a competitor) or blanket a city with microcells, but that doesn't mean it's free. In Rural areas it may even be cheaper for T-Mobile to increase capacity than for Comcast to do the same.
Comcast could probably save millions of dollars each year in reduced capital costs if they could trim their Netflix bandwidth by compressing their video.
- epistasis 11y agoComcast is fundamentally different in a second way: they have huge incentives to make on-demand video over the Internet unbearable, as a way of holding on to their cable revenue. And there's ample evidence of them refusing to interconnect with the backbones that provide a lot of the video traffic. The problem is not in running more fibers or more wavelengths, the problem is connecting ports in a meet-up room. Comcast doesn't really care that much about decreasing the bandwidth, they care about keeping their customers on their cable service.