what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

Wed May 11 21:05:13 UTC 2005

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Wow! You can buy groceries at Kohls now?  :-)

(1) Kohls is/was a regional (Wisconsin) grocery store chain[0].

(2) Please do not feed the trolls.

> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:08 -0700, Matt Bazan wrote:
> 
>>why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private
>>reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25?  think you
>>dsl resellers out there are doomed.  in fact, just a matter of time
>>before most of you isps are down the toilet.  im reminded of the mom and
>>pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,
>>a&p, whole foods etc.  of course there will always be niche markets but
>>this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth.  yeah, i
>>suppose you'll say something about value added services and such and you
>>may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long.

[0] That's kind of a funny reference when you know what happened
to Kohls Foods. They were bought by A&P who subsequently closed or sold
off the individual stores. Kohls Foods suffered the "ma and pa"-like
fate described above.
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