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bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus | The problem with metered service... The main problem with metered service is that it is going to cause the internet to stagnate, not die, just stagnate. The "unlimited" service model is what has allowed for things like online music stores (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.), user generated content (Deviant Art, LiveJournal, etc), online gaming, VoIP, and whole lot of other applications to develop. The demand for broadband was create BY the fact that people no longer had to worry about being connected too long/using too much.
By switching to a pay per byte model, the model of the internet that has emerged, a bazaar that everyone can interact within, disappears. The demand for these new services that have pushed the internet forward will wain.
Pay per byte doesn't really make sense in well connected nations like Japan, Korea, the US, Canada, and the whole of Europe. The only reason places like Australia are putting up with it is because of the shady dealings of companies that are providing those places with connectivity to the rest of the world.
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 redshiftPremium
join:2004-03-23
Beverly Hills, CA
1 edit | The problem with places like Australia isn 't the fact that bandwidth is limited (it's not really unlimited anywhere else, except maybe Japan) because even in "Well connected" places like Canada you are kicked off the network if you download more than a certain amount, it's the cost of broadband. In all other developed nations a reasonable prices broadband service, with about 100 gigs of download is in the $40-$60 range, whereas in Australia that would be easily $120 +
One thing about metering that the ISPs may not like is that if you pay for a certain amount of bandwidth and you have access to how much you consume, you are probably more likely to consume the remaining amount of you bandwidth at the end of the month, because you paid for it. So they will have a lot of the heavy users actually using their excess bandwidth at the end of the month, then perhaps they otherwise would simply because they can; because they know what they have left.
Also some of the better ISPs in Canada (teksavvy) already meter, but they do have an unlimited option. $30 for 100gigs of DSL /month is quite reasonable.
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Suffern, NY | said by redshift:One thing about metering that the ISPs may not like is that if you pay for a certain amount of bandwidth and you have access to how much you consume, you are probably more likely to consume the remaining amount of you bandwidth at the end of the month, because you paid for it. So they will have a lot of the heavy users actually using their excess bandwidth at the end of the month, than perhaps they otherwise would simply because they can. If I am charged $X for yGB of bandwidth, I should be given that amount - ie: Roll-Over of unused Bandwidth. The unused Bandwidth can expire (if not used in a designated period of time), get discounted (ie: The Bandwidth from 2 months ago might only be worth 75%), or exchangeable for discounted monthly payments (ex: Once I have yGB of Rolled-Over bandwidth, I get a free month of service that burns off the full yGB even if not all used). In each case the ISP is delivering what was paid for - ie: An average of yGB/month for my $X. | |
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