best effort business model seen as not economically sustainable

Fri May 28 18:18:24 UTC 2004

Greetings Nanogers,

I published a two month issue last weekend with the bottom line 
conclusion that there can be no telecom recovery as long as the 
industry relies solely on the best effort business model which I 
believe is not economically sustainable.

This has led to two articles on my June-July issue conclusions this 
week in the trade press.  Something that has never happened to me 
before.  :-)

The first is ISP Planet and the second Broadband Edge.

Here are the urls

http://www.isp-planet.com/perspectives/2004/cook_internet.html  (monday)

http://bbedge.mblast.com/presentation/page798-878156.asp  (today)

Finally my summary, table of contents and list of contributors is at 
http://cookreport.com/13.04.shtml

Enjoy the weekend.
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