 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | How True Metered Billing should work If a company wants to go to metered billing it should be structured in one of two ways:
1) You get a fixed monthly charge (for your connection) and a designed usage charge. IOW: $X/Month and $Y/GB.
2) You get a fixed monthly charge (for your connection) with a designated GB allowance of Y/GB. If you exceed Y GB in a month then you pay an overage charge per GB that is NO MORE than the monthly charge divided by the GB allowance. IOW: You pay $X/Month and get a Y GB allowance. When/If you exceed that allowance the overage MUST be no more than $X/Y per GB.
ALL of the so called "metered" plans are of the second type EXCEPT that they charge an overage fee that is way out of line with the initial charge. A fair plan IMO, should be both plans with the user getting charged the lessor of the two charges (so low usage users get charged for their actual usage). An alternative is having the second plan offer "roll-over" GB as opposed to "Use Them or Lose Them" GBs (with the monthly fee dropping down to a lower tier's usage cap if the account is under used for 3 months until the roll-over minutes are burned off). |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Exactly what I was thinking...in fact, if I wre to start an ISP it'd be exactly that way...but that's too smart for the cable and DSL giants... |
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| said by iansltx:Exactly what I was thinking...in fact, if I wre to start an ISP it'd be exactly that way...but that's too smart for the cable and DSL giants... mod to have throttling with choice of having full speed at a added cost per use over the cap. Also have cap free off peak time.
also have roll over. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
 ·Frontier FiOS
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said by RARPSL:ALL of the so called "metered" plans are of the second type EXCEPT that they charge an overage fee that is way out of line with the initial charge. Shouldn't the same be said for, say, wireless phone plans? Take the most basic advertised regular Verizon plan which is 450 minutes for $40 with $.45/minute overage. It should be about $.09/minute, but they are charging over 5x as much as they should. Why aren't people all up in arms about wireless phone overage fees that have ALWAYS been there and been disproportionally higher then the "$X/Y" price of the base plan? |
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