said by d4m1r:said by Samgee:said by d4m1r:You're approaching it wrong...Their costs have nothing to do with usage per say, but capacity. Simple example, if I download a 100GB file on TSI @ 2am, let say it costs them $5.
Any bandwidth used off peak costs the provider nothing. I see where you're example is headed, just wanted to make sure you understood where the costs are. Peak capacity, that's it.
No, it doesn't cost them nothing....They still have to pay, just a lot less (ex: transit costs). But yes, it is not 2:1...
No, it really does cost them nothing. All the costs you're thinking of are built into the per user fees and peak capacity costs. Every single bit of data transferred off peak is free, bought and paid for in the other costs. If there is no usage off peak, it costs the exact same as if peak usage happened 24/7.
*edit* If they have their own costs that are based on usage that they haven't told us about, then I will be wrong in the above. From everything that's been presented to us, the costs are contained in the peak numbers and per user fees.