chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to SuperWISP
Re: Bandwidth costs money. (Duh!) Except for a few crazies here I don't think anyone here opposes reasonable network management so long as it is agnostic to the type of traffic and origin of the traffic. I also don't mind having tiered plans, but the overage must reflect the cost of delivery and not be a penalty as such I do believe that these also need to be regulated. Not based on a static number, but based on a ratio of speed to base cost.
Something like the maximum rate you can charge per GB is equal to twice (the monthly cost - the fixed cost associated with it) / The GB cap. So a 150GB cap like comcast provides which costs $100 per month, let's say $20 comes from the fixed cost (this is a guess) would mean a price cap of $80 / 150GB = $0.53 per GB.
For a smaller plan like you see for wireless which have much higher data costs which is say $100 per 5GB with the same fixed cost (again this cost has nothing to do with reality, real numbers would be nice) would be $80 / 5GB = $16 per GB. |
