On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Mark Thornton wrote:
The other thing that seems obvious to me is that the ISP business must not be the driving financial group behing the TCH product.
I still maintain my theory that 3com is shooting for the big telco carriers' business for TCH. Such a market is already conditioned to paying premium prices for equipment. They're already conditioned to paying extortionate prices for service contracts without question. And that market makes the handful of million$ that this list's users represent look like small potatos in comparison. Why should 3com even care about pipsqueak ISPs who only have a couple of chassis'...or even larger ISPs who have a couple mill$ worth of chassis, when they can be spending their time courting a market that spends billions$ at a time? Not to mention that said market won't be whining about service contract pricing...they just file for a rate- increase tarriff to cover the added expense. - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.