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Ahrenl

join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
reply to Ulmo
Re: So?

That would be cool.

So would A-la-carte cable pricing. I don't see either happening ever.

Ulmo

join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET

reply to Ahrenl
I'd prefer they get a decent margin over the charges they're actually paying: traffic to certain destinations (within their network, for instance) would have their within network prices, and traffic to certain other destinations (those carriers they have peering and transit agreements with and even private connections to) would have the costs associated and appropriate for each of those other carriers. That way, I can start blacklisting or avoiding the carriers they are using that are costing me too much, and those that are so cheap that they don't work well enough, and focus on the good value ones.

Ahrenl

join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
·Verizon FIOS

reply to sdfffg
As long as they're telling you up front what service they're selling you, it's exactly the same as every other non-shady transaction completed.

As far as I'm concerned, you seem to be ignorant to the fact that bandwidth is a variable cost to ISPs. Therefore, in order to offer you a fixed price they need to either, cap your speed, or cap your monthly total usage. What they should do, in my opinion, is just have a variable additional cost over the 100gb set limit. Although, I would put a opt-in clause for user to be put on the variable overage plan.
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