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by josh2600 12y ago
Note: It is definitely not built under that premise, hence why your consumer bandwidth is asymmetrical... The Tier 1 always wants to ask for more bits than a lower tier operator. If a lower tier operator asks for more bits and tilts the tra
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by josh2600 12y ago
This is also kind of relevant given that Cogent bears Netflix's bits and Cisco benefits from that bearing: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-1019435.html
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by josh2600 12y ago
1) Agreed. 2) Agreed. 3) All of the big Telcos are public, but your point stands. To be explicit, I wholeheartedly agree with you about humans making pseudo-random decisions. I'm trying to explain the dynamics of the Telco position, fr
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by josh2600 12y ago
I'll reiterate the problem carriers face that I stated earlier. Customer revenue is decreasing and because the market is saturated they cannot add enough customers to combat the atrophy of revenue. As shareholders expect growth every y
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by josh2600 12y ago
That's true except in markets where saturation has been achieved. In a market with 80-100%+ saturation, the per subscriber revenue does not increase year over year. In these cases, creating a customer doesn't actually increase sha
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by josh2600 12y ago
Not a bad list. Cheers. I'll note that we should have explicit public subsidies for Internet and that I would much prefer to have public networks with private operators (to my mind that's heaven for competitive markets but politic
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by josh2600 12y ago
... Your wireless network service is best effort. This is why your service provider doesn't have to compensate you for dropped calls or dropped packets or towers with insufficient capacity. The word "promise" is not an accura
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by josh2600 12y ago
Where do you draw the line? What shouldn't we socialize?
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by josh2600 12y ago
This is evidently not true. Streaming services are a dime a dozen but their distribution of bit volume is not even. Netflix is far and away the biggest user of bits on the Internet and other streaming services are an order of magnitude smal
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by josh2600 12y ago
The question is: are the networks public, and therefore conduits for competition, or private, and therefore competitive infrastructure. In some capacity, the networks have to peer to hit all of the IP blocks, but that's pretty much one
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by josh2600 12y ago
An ISP's job, as a private company, is to maximize shareholder value. The circuit consumers are sold is a "best-effort" connection in stark contrast to, say, a T1, which is a dedicated circuit. It's also very hard to pro
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by josh2600 12y ago
I think that the way the cable network works relative to the internet is a historical artifact versus modern parlance. My opinion is that precedent is not actually a guiding factor in how future arrangements should be determined. The Intern
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by josh2600 12y ago
Playing Devil's advocate here for a second: If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO's comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company? That is
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by josh2600 12y ago
The settlement agreements for calls are pretty straightforward (Sending party pays). Consumers are also billed for service, but behind the scenes there's a wholesale market where traffic imbalances are valuable (this is also a core iss
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by josh2600 12y ago
Technically speaking, it's only on SS7 networks where this is a problem to implement. It's basically just playing an arbitrary media file, which is trivial in VoIP. The interesting thing is that the original SS7 code did not have
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by josh2600 13y ago
I think it's absolutely amazing that you would call China corruption free, even in contrast to Russia.
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by josh2600 13y ago
It turns out, identity, authentication and security in general are hard. In some context, it takes episodes like the NSA, heartbleed and this OAuth nonsense to remind us how important knowing who you're talking to is on the Internet. I
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by josh2600 13y ago
The what'sapp acquisition is rational in our current economy. 1) what'sapp users are in places Facebook can't hit. Think of how intense of a data application Facebook is and think about accessing it in a country without adequ
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by josh2600 13y ago
The call will go straight to voicemail if the last registered network was your home network. It doesn't go straight to voicemail if the last registered network is an international roaming partner. Source: I'm a huge telco nerd wor
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is true for calls inside your home network. When you place a call to an on-net device, the network knows almost instantaneously if you're available or not. Let's say you're roaming: how does your home network know how to
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by josh2600 13y ago
The question for me after all this is simple: Is it that 'Everything is a Ponzi scheme until it isn't' or is it that 'Nothing is a Ponzi scheme until it is'?
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by josh2600 13y ago
1) The bill is to the government and is typically in the range of $750 per day per tap. 2) Any network admin inside of telecom will tell you that this is a terrible system to implement and maintain. 3) Zero operators perceive wiretapping as
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by josh2600 13y ago
Always enjoy Sam's writing. Wondering how this will impact YC (how much of YC is PG's aura and how much is YC? We will find out). Change is hard and exciting. If PG is monitoring these comments, my question is: "what was the
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by josh2600 13y ago
Hey Zach! That's funny, I couldn't find your post-YC round anywhere on the interwebs or CrunchBase. You've done a great job keeping that under wraps (also the revenue piece, WOW!). I'm excited for you guys and look forwa
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by josh2600 13y ago
Met Zach at the ST holiday party through a mutual acquaintance. I found him to be quite upbeat and aware of the challenges that are omnipresent in infrastructure businesses (source: I'm deeply involved in an infrastructure business inv
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by josh2600 13y ago
I harken another commenters words when I observe that this attitude would've prevented the formation of Viber and What'sApp had they simply accepted the status quo of the time. The same could be said of Google competing with Alta
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by josh2600 13y ago
For everyone saying this is a waste of money, consider the commentary around Instagram at $1B. Basically the world said that this was a horrible acquisition at the time, but in retrospect, buying Instagram was quite cheap. Buying your close
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by josh2600 13y ago
That's cool. It sounds like it's time to start another calling company.
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by josh2600 13y ago
In America we tolerate brutality and are intolerant of nudity. Tis' a silly place.
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by josh2600 13y ago
It's rational for a police officer to respond to civil disobedience in some circumstances with detention. That is not unreasonable in some situations, particularly one where lives are at stake or where there is clear and present danger

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