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To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (7040)	2/11/1999 8:41:00 AM
From: Goodboy	Read Replies (1) of 21143

One of the things that is changing here is the telephone usage paradigm versus the bandwidth usage paradigm. When I call Ken, I can speak loud or soft, long or short and have as many people in my home pick up another phone and join in on the conversation. All of these factors put no more strain on the telco system. In fact, the only major strain that the internet has put on telco's is the amount of time that users stay on versus how the system was designed. The fact that a telco doesn't charge by the minute for local calls lets us stay on the internet for hours without worry. The broadband pipe of cable however is a very different animal. I can do things from my home by downloading large data or video files, opening multiple web pages or receiving or downloading large files by e-mail (we are all guilty of passing along large files on e-mail of Clinton jokes). Many corporations are actually starting to filter e-mail because it is taking too much bandwidth in the system and slowing it down for other more important functions other than a jpeg photo of Clinton holding Playboy magazine. The new paradigm is more like power usage. The more you use the more you pay. If your house is a shrine to electronics, chances are you pay more than your neighbor for electricity. Would it be fare if everyone paid the same price, but some used far more of far less electricity? A paradigm that will likely develop is pay to play. If you want full and open access to the cable pipe with no bandwidth restrictions (or at least a much higher threshold than others), you will pay a much higher access price. One day, maybe ten years from now, bandwidth constraints won't exist. Until that day, bandwidth will need to be managed so that you and I don't have degradation of service or fewer services available because TM rent is downloading the entire collection of 1/2 hour Brady Bunch episodes for his 70's sitcom viewing pleasure.

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