 DHRacerFire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
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 ·Verizon Online DSL
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Re: In Favor Of By-The-Byte Pricing It's like cell phone minutes, and yet nearly everyone has a cell phone.
You buy the minutes plan you think you'll need, and usually guess high until you get a feel for your usage and then drop the plan down, if needed.
Why wouldn't this work for internet??
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 gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 | I agree %100 with your analogy. As long as they give a fair amount up front, and a fair price for overage packages, and they get rid of all the filters, and throttling, I am all for it. |
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 DotMac4Shill H8rPremium
join:2007-10-26
Huntington Beach, CA | reply to DHRacer
said by DHRacer:Why wouldn't this work for internet?? It easily would but the situation now is no one is doing it. It would be like all cellular companies offer virtually unlimited minutes for a price and one is looking to switch to bill by the minute. Unless the plan is aggressively, it's a tough sell. |
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scooper
join:2000-07-11
Youngsville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Time Warner Cable
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| reply to DHRacer
Yep - I discovered I was using my cell phone so little that paying per minute to Virgin mobile made more sense than paying a monthly plan to Sprint - even though it is exactly the same network. Now, Instead of $30 -$40 per month, I usually average around $6-$7 per month. If I ever get back to where I'm spending $30 -$40 per month on Virgin Mobile - THEN it will be time to revisit going back to a monthly plan again. |
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