I get this salesman calling me today to sell Internet bandwidth. He sounds
like someone who was hired off the street, because he doesn't totally know
what he's talking about.

He did a Google search and found my corporate website, and found my number.

He asks what my current bandwidth is. I say, "15 megabits download, about 5
megabits upload".

Then he asks, "How much are you paying for that sir?"

I respond, "Well, what is this call about?"

Then he says his company provides cheap bandwidth for media publishers like
my company, and that several companies like my own rely on them to serve up
websites, blogs, data-streaming, and what not. So he asks again, how much
I'm paying.

I say, "about $40.00 a month".

He says, "Oh".

And a long pause.

"Well, we can't beat that price."

I laughed. I said it's because it's a cable internet connection with our
local cable television company.

"Oh", he says.

I bet he was thinking I maintain my own web servers here in my office, and
that I have some kind of ridiculously high-priced internet connection to
some backbone company. He doesn't realize that most web publishers use web
hosting companies to provide the server storage and bandwidth. Either that,
or he thought my company is much larger than the corporate website appears.