Re: Pay as you surf (US)
- From: Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:48:44 +0100
ato_zee@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Some already use the PAYG broadband model, but
others rely on traffic shaping and throttling.
The most logical model is a standing tariff plus
PAYG, just like other utilities, the more electricity,
gas, water, phone calls, you make/use, the more
you pay. So the GB per day downloaders, gamers,
etc pay more.
I think the critical difference is that whereas no consumer can reaslistically consume so much gas or electricity that his neighbours get deprived, the bandwidth available in local exchanges / routers or whatever is finite and /can/ be maxed out.
It tends to fall down when the big players buy
out the small high quality of service providers.
I don't think this is a big/small provider thing. I think its simply a matter of how many customers they have. If you only have 1000 customers in total its easy to buy enough local bandwidth. If you have 1,000,000 customers it becomes significantly harder.
Well yes it is for the shareholders and board
members on fat salaries, with final salary
pension schemes, private health care and other perks.
Sorry to say, most such perks are long gone. Board members get a cash payoff and non-execs don't get fringe benefits (plus they're taxable).
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