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Originally Posted by brundles
Playing devils advocate for a minute...
We all know that the ISP market itself isn't very profitable on the carrier infrastructure alone. We also know that content markets are demanding greater bandwidth (e.g. BBC iPlayer) and greater reliability (e.g. VOIP) forcing ISPs to chew through what little profit there was in the first place.
Ignoring for a minute the fact that VM charge a premium rate compared to many ADSL ISPs at the moment, would the people (me included) against Phorm be prepared to pay a premium for a snoop-free service?
For me the answer is yes I would, but it looks like we're not going to be given the option.
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devils advocate is always a good thing to be now and then however.
paying for a snoop free service: NO, its unlawful to snoop so they cant be allowed to profit from an unlawful act by supplying a lawful service at an extra cost.
how can the given UK ISP increase cash flow:
offer to sell/rent the end user more than one cable/DSL modem per account, VM dont allow that.
offer to sell/rent the end user some internal co-location space at their head end and connected buildings etc, VM dont do that.
offer the end user Multicast (tunnels) so as to grow Multicasting video streaming accross the entire network and the UK,hence saving masses of bandwidth for the taking, VM dont do that.
far more options to make more lawful profits, but as you might guess, Virgin Media dont do that....
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BTW that
http://www.clickz.com is blocked by many online hosts files and i cant be bothered to unblock it just to read the
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628633
whats the basic outline of that story you and Pieman posted ?.