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travelguy

join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM

reply to hobgoblin
Re: Pay per Usuage

said by hobgoblin See Profile :

I have always thought that customers should pay for exactly how much they use. Those who download 24/7 from Newsgroups and p2p should end up paying their proportion of the cost instead of moderate users subsidizing them.

Thus if you want to download HD Movies and TV shows....You can as long as you want to bear the costs.
What you may be overlooking is that the internet is a classic example of a business that has very high fixed costs and very low variable costs. Billing by the byte is analogous to billing by the minute for phone calls. It's a business model that is rapidly becoming obsolete.

What ISPs will need to do is come up with a model that looks at total bandwidth used over a period of time (to cover the average size of the pipe they need to contract for) as well as some form of peak time billing to cover the margins.
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