Hello,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Brian Candler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com">B.Candler@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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98% of customers won't even notice. 1% will consider it to be a security<br>
benefit. The remaining 1% will pay more for a premium product with a real<br>
IP address.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not so sure about this. I think this is barely acceptable (more on this below) in mobile broadband services due to the very limited nature of what you can use your mobile for, which is basically e-mail checking and http-only web access.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Fixed broadband is a completely different story, being a much richer environment application-wise. Yes, people do P2P and will complain if it does not work. Yes, people expect Skype to work and will complain when it does not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I said "barely acceptable" because even in mobile networks there is a trend to move devices to public address space. Here in my country, all "mobile broadband" services, that is, 3g modems you plug to a laptop have been moved to use public IP addresses, while "mobile data access" services, that is services that provide data access from your mobile are being kept behind rfc1918 space.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Reasons for this are manyfold, and common consumer complaints about their laptops being NATed is one of them.</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div><br></div><div>Carlos</div></div>