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| Re: If only 5% generate 60% of the total traffic... said by mordin  :Your scenario doesn't fit since a store is trying to 'sell' it's merchandise. It should fit because Bell should be trying to sell Bandwidth to the third parties. If they aren't, well, "They're doing it wrong" as the saying goes....By the way stores sometimes do put limits on sales - ever see the line 'limit X per customer'? Completely different reason.... That's because they are using the item in question as a "loss leader" IE often selling it at cost or below as an advertising point to bring people into the store. They slap the limit on to stop a rival or competitor from coming in any buying up all the items for below cost, causing them to lose money and then have no stock for the other customers who get angry. ALSO there's another main reason. Often in retail the manufacturer will rebate back to the store a certain amount of cash for units sold during a sale. The manufacturer or supplier will place the limit per person requirement on the rebate offer to prevent again one of their other customers from coming in and buying it all up cheaper from that store then they would have had to pay to get it from the distributor.
This type of thing is VERY common on cigarettes, Beer, Soda, etc
Bell is selling a service Maybe they are selling a service to their end users... but to the third parties and commercial users they are selling a commodity pure and simple and charge by usage, not fixed rate via connection like as in the end user. So that argument is dismissed.
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