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Ulmo

join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
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reply to TheMG

Re: Blocks of data

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.


jester121
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
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·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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