Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to RARPSL
Re: Per-Byte Billing Is Neither Necessary Nor Inevitable While I agree that a fixed base charge is reasonable and correct, charging based upon GBs downloaded is not related to the ISPs costs( so the car analogy fails here). Both transit costs and hardware costs are entirely based upon peak Mbps. Any GBs downloaded during non peak hours incurs no additional costs for the ISP, yet they want to charge for them. Since their costs are related to peak Mbps and their (current) tiers are priced by Mbps, the current situation(flat rate) is fair. IF they temporarily need to handle traffic issues during peak hours they can implement proticol agnostic throttling such as what Comcast uses(again temporarily, during peak hours, until capacity can be upgraded). Just look at the ISP's filings, they are not even close to loosing money on the internet side. |
