Re: [dow3tf] TR: Industries/Companies to Survey Practices of Other OnlineService Providers

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/2004 11:24 AM sarah.b.deutsch@xxxxxxxxxxx noted that:

>  On the transaction point, although AOL and MSN
> may have millions of subscribers, most ISPs are relatively small.
>
> Why would you be suggesting that they be used as an
> industry benchmark for collecting best practices for data accuracy?

That wasn't my suggestion at all. My original message was quite clear on 
this - surveying a bunch of multi-national enterprises isn't going to 
give us a broad understanding regarding what is happening in the 
internet services industry. Verizon isn't C4 - the services that you 
each offer are very different, your scale is very different and your 
practices are going to be very different. We should seek to discover 
what the typical operator is experiencing and implementing and not 
exclusively focus on the top tier in a limited number of sectors.


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