TheMGPremium
join:2007-09-04
Canada
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·TekSavvy DSL
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Re: Blocks of data said by gatorkram:What they should do, first, is get rid of the filters, and throttling, and then they should go to a per gig billing scheme. Include 200gb and then sell 200gb overage packages for around $10 a month. Exactly what TekSavvy is doing right now for their premium service, and with great success. It comes with 200GB base bandwidth and the option of purchasing extra 100GB blocks for $10, or $0.25/GB overage. |
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 gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2
 ·Suddenlink
| As long as the amount given in the front end is fair, and the price for going over is fair, I'd be more than happy to pay for what I use.
Seems logical to me anyway.
Again, as long as they don't fiddle around with what I can do, or even when, etc etc.
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 | Hell, I'd be willing to pay more right now, just to get the damn filter and throttling off my line. |
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Why would you pay the same amount for a 'premium' service with CAPS, when you can get the exact same thing without a cap. Hell, if you downloaded 1TB/month, you would be out 29.95+80.00=109.95, vs. the 29.95 fee you would pay for the regular package? Sure, if your a gamer, the latency might make you go for the premium, but I guantee you that's not their big seller.
option 1: $29.95/month @ 5mb/sec UNLIMITED where you can download a about 1.5TB/month vs option 2:paying 29.95+130.00 = 159.95/month? Who chooses option 1? Everyone
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TheMGPremium
join:2007-09-04
Canada
kudos:1 Reviews:
·TekSavvy DSL
| Actually the price for the unlimited is going up by $10 this January.
Essentially if you download less than 300GB on average, then premium is the better deal. If you download more than 300GB then unlimited is a better deal.
Also, unlimited has different transit which has slightly higher latencies than premium, which gamers are mostly concerned about. |
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 jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
 ·voip.ms
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If they decide to charge $79.99 per extra 100 GB, would you consider that "fair"? What if you neighbor doesn't think that's fair?
The provider gets to decide what's "fair" because they are the ones providing the service. I'm sure that Australia's ISPs would consider their packages to be fair -- after all, people sign up for them and pay the bills.
Or did you have a different definition of "fair" in mind? |
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Suddenlink
| said by jester121:If they decide to charge $79.99 per extra 100 GB, would you consider that "fair"? What if you neighbor doesn't think that's fair? The provider gets to decide what's "fair" because they are the ones providing the service. I'm sure that Australia's ISPs would consider their packages to be fair -- after all, people sign up for them and pay the bills. Or did you have a different definition of "fair" in mind? No, I wouldn't consider that a fair price.
If that were the price, I'd be more careful with what I used my bandwidth for, which is sort of the whole point of usage based pricing.
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I live in Australia, unlimited is not truely unlimited. You go past a predetermined amount, 20gb; then you are shaped to 64k until the next billing cycle. I have use a data block plan. Yes it makes me more selective of my downloads. I also have peak and nonpeak download times, 2am-10am. So I use a download manager and schedule my downloads. So while unlimited means you still have internet, you have to live with their terms. |
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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
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said by TheMG:Exactly what TekSavvy is doing right now for their premium service, and with great success. It comes with 200GB base bandwidth and the option of purchasing extra 100GB blocks for $10, or $0.25/GB overage. Those are reasonable prices.
Metered use is fine as long as the prices are reasonable. Metered use is not fine as long as the prices are unreasonable.
These are extremely simple concepts, and there are exceedingly amazingly large numbers of people both as consumers and MBAs that fail to understand them. |
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jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL Reviews:
·voip.ms
| said by Ulmo:Those are reasonable prices. Metered use is fine as long as the prices are reasonable. Metered use is not fine as long as the prices are unreasonable. These are extremely simple concepts, and there are exceedingly amazingly large numbers of people both as consumers and MBAs that fail to understand them. And the devil's in the details -- in this case, semantics. You've declared that those prices are "reasonable", based on how important service is to you, your disposable income, and however you derived what your ISP "should" be charging.
It's funny how ISPs get hammered all the time when they make a decision about "reasonable" usage levels as relates to caps, etc. |
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