2 edits | Let's be clear about this... Metered billing has zero to do with costs and everything to do with trying to change a business model to one that maximizes revenue.
It's a basic tenet of the MBA crowd that you are leaving money on the table if you don't charge what the customer is willing to pay, and different customers are willing to pay different amounts for the same thing. That's why you don't see airliners selling every seat on a flight for the same price.
By switching to metered billing, by assuming that high use users are more willing to pay, they get a crude way to charge those users more. |
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Mary Esther, FL | Ok then.. when your bill jumps from $60 to $600 don't come bitching at us.. this is about control pure, plain and simple. what you do on a daily basis will soon become a thing of the past.
Wake up will you.. it's not about a "business model" at all. If it was, this would have happened a long time ago if it didn't work.
This has been successful for over 5 years.
Say no to metered billing say yes to an open interent.
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| Dude, you are missing the point. I'm not supporting what TW is doing, and I'm not dissing them. I'm explaining how they think and trying to show that people who fall for the metered billing is a cost argument are seriously misinformed.
TW is looking for a way to maximize revenue. That's what companies do. It doesn't matter if flat rate billing has been working for 5 years or 25 years. The fact is that if TW customers buy into metered billing because they think it's somehow fairer than uncapped, flat rate billing, and that model makes TW more revenue, then they are obligated to do that.
True flat rate uncapped billing will never be sustainable because someone will always figure out a way to use that capacity to the detriment of others. The old tragedy of the commons problem. Phone companies didn't let you keep a dial up line engaged 24/7, dial up ISPs didn't let you do that, and cell companies charge outrageous fees for every minute over your bucket.
What makes you think broadband connections are any different? And before you answer that, consider that the only real answer is for you to create your own broadband service and make a go with your unlimited billing plans...  |
