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Re: metered billing means Just scrolling and trying to see what others have to say on this. 
I agree with fireflier that the 5 GB per capita would be grossly inaccurate to represent usage of typical usage for an average household/user. If you take that "monthly Internet traffic estimate" for the US and divide it by the entire US population then you get roughly 5 GB per capita figure...
Of course, not everyone in the US even have a computer let alone internet access... A quick Google search suggests that to be as high as 30% (2005 figures) so you are lowering the average of people that actually uses the internet... 5 GB/.7 = 7 GB would be slightly better figure. I would argue that is still too low for board band users as 5 GB should be pretty hard to hit on 56k dial up (assuming 8hrs per day; still takes over a week 24/7 to hit 5 GB). My guess is board band is more like 10 to 12 GB and dial up is 1 to 3 GB per month. And Yeah there are still people in the US that uses dial up... Just my guess tho...
Still as pointed out, you need to know the standard deviation to use the normal/bell curve to figure out where say ~68% to ~95% of the population lies. It would seem fair to me if they had a reasonable/cheap plan to cover ~68% of users, and a more expensive plan to cover ~95%, and then very expensive plans... If it really is all about consumers as they claim... |
