anon148123123
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Ammler 
| reply to Airwolf7
Re: Who gives a F**k!
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair. |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair.
Finally! Someone who gets it! You should put your resume in for CEO of these companies. However, you did forget one thing: the price.
? for meg/gig transfer. It should be a fair price not the $1 or 2 per gig or meg that some companies are suggesting.
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Kilroy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI
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said by anon148123123 :
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas. I don't know where you live, but on my gas bill I have a customer charge of about $10. Yes, that's right, I have to pay to be their customer. So, it doesn't matter how much I use I have to pay this charge every month, as a minimum.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo
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| Those charges go to the continued maintenance of infrastructure to supply you with gas. They have to test and refurb meters periodically and maintain the main lines that supply the houses. That's what the $10 goes toward.
Unlike gas companies though, ISPs aren't lowering their starting cost to something that's a base/maintenance cost just to provide you with access to the infrastructure. They're starting where they were for infrastructure and data costs and going from there.
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to anon148123123
There is no such thing as a $0 Power or Gas bill. Even they have a minimum amount, it's not much but it's still not $0 even if you do not use any gas or power. |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
Metered Billing does not necessarily require a $0 no usage bill. Gas/Electricity has a fixed delivery capability (ie: Infrastructure) cost as well as the variable delivery cost. Thus there should be a fixed fee to support their ABILITY to deliver that you pay independent of how much usage you use. Then you pay for your actual usage. This is the same with internet metering. You should, as you stated, pay some fixed fee for your connection and then be billed for your usage. |
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thedragonmas
join:2007-12-28
Albany, GA
| reply to anon148123123
said by anon148123123 :
If we are going to have metered billing, then do it the right way. Pay for what you use!
If you don't use the connection, you pay $0 for the service, like electric & gas.
They need to remove the $50.00 / month for 10Down/2up & go with $5.00/month for the model/router rental & then charge for the mega, giga bytes when your start streaming data to & fro! Simple & fair.
sure, one small problem, we pay a minimum for our meters weather or not we use the service, and no it does NOT go towards maintnance, i have never once seen them test a meter just to test it. heck we still have analog meters even tho the rest of the city has digital meters. not that im complaining, means if i keep my faucet on realllly slow i can use all the water i want and they wont notice a drop  |
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