[sllug-members]: Bad UTOPIA news - let's do something about it

[warrenw at xmission.com]

Quoting Steve <smorrey at gmail.com>:

> Would it be feasible at all to price services at say $2/Mb below a
> certain threshold of say 10Mbps?

Not under the current model.  Its just too expensive to get fiber  
inside a residence for just this shallow return (realize that we only  
pay part of the market price in wholesale costs to the network).  When  
I made this same proposal to iProvo, I was asked if I shared their  
plane of reality.

That said, concepts like this are on the table as PacketFront and  
UTOPIA reorganize.  I'm not sure if I'm allowed by NDA to discuss some  
of the changes in the works yet, but they should allow for service  
like this, particularly when bundled with VoIP and/or video.


Warren S. N. Woodward
Director, Broadband Services
XMission Internet
warrenw at xmission.com
(801) 303-0819
(877) XMISSION  ext 119