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Thank you!!! It drives me insane that residential customers expect business grade service, service support, and uptime. Yet they want to pay a fraction of the p

• guelo 8y ago
  Then the ISPs will start requiring *Enterprise Premium", then they'll make you get "Enterprise Premium with Streaming package", then you'll have to get "Xfinity Triple Play Enterprise Premium with the Extended Streaming Bundle, up to 500 Subscribers Package". It's all bullshit for then to keep charging you more. Thanks Net Neutrality.
  • jessaustin 8y ago
    Perhaps you meant, "thanks government-enforced monopoly"?
    • Spivak 8y ago
      I think more realistically I think you mean, "thanks natural market effect where even among competing entities there's strong pressure to charge very close to customer's willingness to pay since undercutting your competition risks a race to the bottom where all competitors suffer."
      • jessaustin 8y ago
        Why aren't other markets like that? Lots of firms in lots of industries have single-digit margins over COGS. They're at "the bottom" all the time. In some industries, defectors from the commercial collusion you describe are punished through non-market means. In telecom, FCC prevents them from existing in the first place.
  • Spivak 8y ago
    This has less to do with NN and more with that a business has a ridiculous amount of leverage over you. Once your ISP figured out that you were a streamer they could just up your price to $500/mo because they can. Or more realistically they could just slip a line in their ToS saying that professional streaming requires a business plan which is $500/mo. NN wouldn't have solved any of this.