Re: New heavy lifter?

From: Sander Vesik (sander_at_haldjas.folklore.ee)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:23:02 +0000 (UTC)

Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > A big chunk of Irtidium's death was simply that they wanted insane margins
> > for having service in some areas. Instead of being a disruptive force and
> > making making a phonecall from teh middle of pacific or data connection
> > from outlying islands cheap they wanted traditional satphone style money
> > and thus royaly screwed themselves.
>
> But, they diddn't have the capacity to be a large-scale service provider.
> And to make them one would have meant bigger birds.

Maybe - but the result was that basicly nobody signed up for the service
in those areas as there was essentialy no incentive to switch. So instead
of having paying customers (never mind overcommited bandwidth) they ended
up with few.

Never mind tehy coudl have started charging new joiners more after say
75% load and used that all to finance bigger birds to gradualy ease
hotspots. Instead tehy simply starved to death. 

-- 
	Sander
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