ZeKs0
join:2003-02-02
Huntington Park, CA | reply to maartena
Re: Bandwidth pricing also the same as utilities? said by maartena:
Fiber to the home is one thing. But if you want to consider broadband a "utility" should it also be priced as a utility?
Water: you pay for how much you use.
Power: you pay for how much you use.
Gas: you pay for how much you use.
Phone: you pay for how much time you call long-distance.
Bandwidth: Should it be priced per TIME? or per DATA usage?
I betcha everyone wants the FTTH, but not the utility pricing 
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by ZeKs0:
said by maartena:
Fiber to the home is one thing. But if you want to consider broadband a "utility" should it also be priced as a utility?
Water: you pay for how much you use.
Power: you pay for how much you use.
Gas: you pay for how much you use.
Phone: you pay for how much time you call long-distance.
Bandwidth: Should it be priced per TIME? or per DATA usage?
I betcha everyone wants the FTTH, but not the utility pricing
Good point.
Sure if 30 gigs or so on the metered plan comes out to around $35-50/mo. but when was the last time anything on your utility bill was 35-50?
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stridr69
join:2003-05-19
San Luis Obispo, CA | Hehehe...my monthly utility bills around $30, year 'round, so I don't worry about that too much.
Bandwidth caps, however, is another kettle of fish. Since I usually listen to internet audio on an average of 4 hours a day,(@16Kbs), this alone can average up to 15 Gigs a month alone. Sorry, Bandwidth caps isn't the future of Broadband-espically if streaming movies or on-demand video comes into play down the road..and we all know it's comming...
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| In other words, you want somebody else to chip in for your
usage.
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