Re: Cingular scaling back on deals for customers out of conntract

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:10:52 -0700, SMS wrote:
Cliff wrote:

You just answered the question yourself as to why Cingular would do
this. If they are losing money having a customer then get rid of the
customer. Economics 101.

But the low ARPU customers are not causing them to lose money, they just
make less from them than from other customers. It's a lot different than
having a product that's in short supply where you want to sell the limited
supply to the customers that will pay the most.

I have some evidence that Cingular is blocking RTSP, though it's hard to
pin down how, where and when it's doing this.

Has anybody had any difficulties w/ RTSP?

I've found a way to alleviate the issue, for now, and so I'm confident
that either Cingular's proxies have a bug, they're actively
blocking/filtering, or I'm a complete idiot (along w/ Apple and Real
Networks) in misreading the RTSP specification.

It would be a shame if Cingular became a walled garden like Verizon. In
the long term it will only help Sprint and T-Mobile. Things like MobiTV
are "nifty", but Cingular will never find the right formula for profiting
from 3G unless it keeps an open market place.

- Bill

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