 nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | reply to Romney2012
Re: Complete Per Byte Billing. said by Romney2012:It won't happen because most users are too lazy to keep an eye on their usage(even if given meters to check it) and would rather overpay for a known set amount each month than pay for exactly what they use. Hence they will get usage tiers instead of straight per-byte billing. Consumers get what they deserve because they would rather pay more for convenience than expend some effort to cut their costs. I'm on "budget" billing with my various utilities. This means the bills are averaged over a 12mo. cycle. Even with this in place (to prevent shocks), I still keep track of the monthly usages. Most of the people I know, whether on budget billing or per therm/kWh/etc. billing also try to keep track of their billing bases.
If the ISPs want to go to per-byte billing models (thus taking a "utility" approach), they should have to provide similar billing models and meter viewability. Then again, "utilities" are, essentially, "dumb pipe" providers. If ISPs want to become "utilities", they should also have to remove themselves from content businesses.
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