 swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | said by jgkolt:Europe just got off this model and are switching to flat rate like we have.
Because people hated by-the-byte. It's always this way. Give people a choice, they prefer flat rate.
said by writeup :
Will users tolerate the migration to a bill-by-the-byte business model? That depends entirely on how much bandwidth they're eating each month.
I don't think so. It's not because of the amounts (of traffic or money) that people like flat rate. It's because they want their bills to be predictable, and to avoid having the constant worry about cost interfering with their internet experience. |
fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | Because people hated the by the byte model is not why it changed... they were restrictive, like Australia still is today, because of limited resources... therefore, they had to put in controls to ensure the system didn't come to a halt. They were able to loosen up on that because as time has changed, more capacity and better infrustructure was put in place to handle the load/needs.
In any monopoly where there really is no competition, the customer really is the last one they listen to.
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