<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p></p><trimmed a small novel><br clear="all"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How 'bout some effort to trim things on this thread which as grown so OT as to be laughable. <br><br></div><div>my $0.02:<br>
<br></div><div>There's a thing called "demarcation line" in telecommunication services. In cable modem land, that line is between the the network sockets you plug into and the rest of the hardware. The wireless interface provided for your use is on your side of the line. They own all the rest and can do pretty well what they want to with it within the confines of the FCC rules. If a customer doesn't want that wireless service that is available for all other Comcast customers running and using their power (all few cents per year - wow a bank breaker), they can pull power when they don't use the internet.<br>
<br></div><div>Anyone who is a Comcast Xfinity subscriber gets to use "free" wifi anywhere these modems are and in theory, once you connect to one, you can basically use the entire US network as giant hotspot given the coverage of Comcast. I suspect it's this aspect of their business that is driving the merger with Timer-Warner. They likely have a plan to monetize that wifi.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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