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All the stuff they offer today. Comcast / Xfinity for example could offer the following over an OAN: Telephony / VOIP Television channels, especially sport
by tedd4u 9y ago
All the stuff they offer today. Comcast / Xfinity for example could offer the following over an OAN:
Telephony / VOIP
Television channels, especially sports
Free/sponsored content (NBC etc)
Email
"security" virus protection etc
Business services
Home security systems
- tedd4u 9y agoP.s. I think Ammon, Idaho is the model for this. Here's a recent article describing the setup: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-if-switching-fiber-isps-was-as-easy-as-clicking-a-mouse/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...
- grahamburger 9y agoThere's also Utopia in Utah. It's not all sunshine and roses but it's pretty good. http://www.utopianet.org http://www.utopianet.org
- wmf 9y agoBut couldn't they could also offer that same stuff over the regular Internet? Why do they need to be your "ISP" to offer that? So that they can sneak extra stuff onto a single confusing bill?
- sli 9y agoYes, and they don't, respectively. Comcast could simply choose not to use the public OAN and stay on their private (or "private") lines, for better or for worse. As for your third question: probably yes, heh.