How to secure the Internet in three easy steps

Mon Oct 28 17:39:28 UTC 2002

Wow!  They just don't count subscribers:).

I realize one way makes more sense from a "we've got more subscribers than
you do sense" but it wouldn't be that hard to count real subscribers one
wouldn't think.

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 alex at yuriev.com wrote:

>
> > > In a public press release dated August, they claim to have
> > > 1.8 million Internet customers.  How that compares to the
> > > global pool of cable users, I cannot say.
> >
> > One cable company I've done business here (Ontario, Canada) has over
> > 500K subscribers, and I don't believe it has the largest number of cable
> > modems in the country. So you're probably talking around 1.5-2 million
> > cable modems north of the border. Then you have Europe (I think .nl has
> > decent cable modem penetration), Asia-Pacific, etc.
>
> Very cute. It is clear that the posters forgot how cable industry "counts"
> subscribers. The details came out during Adelphia bankruptcy. Since that
> time every cable co basically said "yep, that's how we do it too".
>
> Here's counting subscribers the cable industry way:
>
> They take a total revenue that's somehow gets associated with selling cable
> and divide it by the price of the basic cable. The resulting number is the
> number of subscribers that they claim to have.
>
>
> Alex
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