said by Johkal:There is still the opinion by some heavy users that metered usage/billing is still unfair. You'll never please them. I would love metered usage/billing. My usage is so low, that my bill should be $5.00 a month.
My usage for 1.5 days:
WAN Bandwidth - Daily
Date Download Upload Total
2008-08-31 0.13 GB 0.00 GB 0.13 GB
2008-08-30 0.40 GB 0.03 GB 0.42 GB
Fair is a subjective determination which is used in bargaining.
In my view, strict metering wouldn't be fair unless there was also an infrastructure charge built in. Everyone who is connected, whether they use 0 KB or 1000 TB needs to be billed, needs the company to monitor the quality of the connection, needs the infrastructure maintained and upgraded.
A fair bill, to some, might look like:
Internet connection: $20.00
Internet usage, 51.2 GB: $7.94
Internet total: $27.94
and
Internet connection: $20.00
Internet usage, 512.0 GB: $79.40
Internet total: $99.40