| Profits These companies are entitled to make a profit, and I think getting rid of flat-rate billing is one option. The broadband providers could do what the cell phone companies do, give you a big chunk per month and you pay the overage.
Hell, they could take it one step further and give people unlimited "off-peak" and I think that would benefit all parties. The person pirating off torrent/usenet could set the software to transfer only during off-peak times, and during peak usage Average Joe's youtube video will stream great. Joe never goes over because simply browsing the net, streaming music/movies, and checking email wouldn't be bandwidth intensive enough to go over the allotted "peak" GBs per month. Usenet pirate might have to wait a few hours to download that new porn DVD, but if he starts the download during the off-peak time he won't be charged with 4.5GB.
Any other constructive ideas?
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openbox9
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Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | said by texans20:Any other constructive ideas? The ISPs should bill like they are being billed if they want to make/save money. For example, when you lease space at a data center there are two common methods to pay for bandwidth usage; set amount of GB/mth + overage fees, and the 95th percentile (or an equivalent). What's even better is that you can have 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps connection and use it for whatever you are will to pay for. If people in this country really want 100 Mpbs synchronous connections, this is how to get there IMO. Fee for service, bill for usage. It works for other "utilities" why can't it work for broadband? |
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| said by openbox9:said by texans20:Any other constructive ideas? The ISPs should bill like they are being billed if they want to make/save money. For example, when you lease space at a data center there are two common methods to pay for bandwidth usage; set amount of GB/mth + overage fees, and the 95th percentile (or an equivalent). What's even better is that you can have 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps connection and use it for whatever you are will to pay for. If people in this country really want 100 Mpbs synchronous connections, this is how to get there IMO. Fee for service, bill for usage. It works for other "utilities" why can't it work for broadband? Chicken and the egg. If ISP charge for more bandwidth they won't raise the caps or tiers. First problem is TV, you will have no choice but to have your TV provider be your internet provider if not your internet bill will be huge when HD TV gets to become standard. It goes on and on. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | said by Corehhi:Chicken and the egg. If ISP charge for more bandwidth they won't raise the caps or tiers. First problem is TV, you will have no choice but to have your TV provider be your internet provider if not your internet bill will be huge when HD TV gets to become standard. It goes on and on. It's only a chicken/egg situation if you're talking about the fact that 100 Mbps connections aren't deployed to all consumers. In a bill for usage scenario, you won't have caps or tiers. I don't understand your comment about TV. Why would your TV provider have to be your ISP? What are your "on and on" problems? |
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| said by openbox9:said by Corehhi:Chicken and the egg. If ISP charge for more bandwidth they won't raise the caps or tiers. First problem is TV, you will have no choice but to have your TV provider be your internet provider if not your internet bill will be huge when HD TV gets to become standard. It goes on and on. It's only a chicken/egg situation if you're talking about the fact that 100 Mbps connections aren't deployed to all consumers. In a bill for usage scenario, you won't have caps or tiers. I don't understand your comment about TV. Why would your TV provider have to be your ISP? What are your "on and on" problems? 100 Mbs connections? I couldn't get high speed till 5 years ago and that was 1 meg down. I was upgraded for free to 3 megs probably a year and a half ago. I can't purchase a higher tier period. Unless I get a T1.
Just thought about it. I was thinking the TV might be sent over the internet as in movies. Movie on demand. If you had a different company as your internet provider those movies would send you right over any limit they set up. Same with VoIP. If you have company deliver everything it wouldn't be a problem but what if you order HD movies every other night> Usage would be huge. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | The 100 Mbps connection is hypothetical. It really doesn't matter what the connection is as long as you have a connection. Where are you getting HD movies on demand over the Internet? Even if you are, time to start sharing that cost with your transit provider. I'll grant you VoIP consumes a portion of your bandwidth, but honestly, the requirements are so low that unless you use it 24/7, I don't think you'd have a problem. |
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