TehCabALCO
@205.232.x.x
| reply to lukaro
Re: Tiered pricing isn't anything to really fear.....
Frog in boiling water scenario:
1.) Put frog in boiling water, frog jumps out and lives.
applied: charge consumer for ever bit of data at 3 times the cost, monthly cable&inet access bills hit $200 amonth (the cable industries target price) cable companies are satisfied (they will never be happy).
effect: all consumers laugh, cry scream and cancel service.
2.) Put the frog in cool water slowly increase heat until frog dies in boiling water.
Applied:
1.) Restrict all comm protocols as much as possible (i.e. when I first got RR I could run a personal web server and... yes a game server, now I can no longer do this even though cust svc sent me an email 3 yrs ago saying it was ok.)
2.) Start limiting connection speeds, harrass customer base if they use more that 5GB month.
3.) Implement tierd pricing with "reasonable rates" to gain acceptance. In progess now.
4.) Massivly increase tiered pricing due to "increased operational cost, government regs making it difficult to operate, balh blah" and all other excuses to gouge customer. *here some lucky people will jump from the pot, but not enough for the cable co to care.
5.) Increase prices to $200 for cable and 56k internet access, additionally charge consumer by the bit&byte & #hours used. Now there are abunch of dead frogs in the pot, but they will leave the heat just low enough that you dont die to give them thier monthly revenue stream. You will accept this becuase you are a stupid consumer who lives for the minute, your are too dumb to realize what are doing ahHAHAHAHAha heh HAHAHAHA
-The $$$$Cable$$$$ company$ |
|
marigolds
Gainfully employed, finally
Premium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
| Since this scenario is also frequently used in Sunday school lessons, the daughter of a friend of my uncle talked her dad into letting her actually do the experiment (this was several decades ago) to see what happened.
Scenario one Put frog in boiling water
Observations
Frog dies almost instantly upon hitting water
Experiment not repeated.
(Customers search around grasping for alternatives and realize that they do not have any. Those who can afford it, stay)
Scenario two Put frog in cold water and slowly boil
Observations
Frog gets bored. Hops away.
Experiment repeated ten times, same results.
(As prices continue to slowly rachet up, alternative broadband solutions continue to develop. When customers stay on despite ever rising prices in an area, telcos pay attention and decide to grab the consumer's attention. Many cities start considering the Spencer, IA route of developing their own physical plant and saying "Screw you" to the cable, phone, and power companies.)
--
ISCABBS - the oldest and largest BBS on the Internet
telnet://whip.isca.uiowa.edu
or Go to
»isca.whiteboard.net for more information (and java telnet access) |
|
XBL2009
------
join:2001-01-03
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| *Cough*
"Take a pot of hot water and a frog. Throw the frog into the pot. What do you think will happen? The obvious, of course: the frog will jump out. Who likes hanging around in a pot of hot water? Now ... [t]ake a pot of cold water, put the frog in it, and place the pot on the stove. Turn on the heat. This time something different will occur. The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled. |
|
spenster
join:2001-04-03
Houston, TX
| quote:
The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled.
The frog may not notice it at first but the frog's body does have a threshold. Sooner or later it will notice. |
|
Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
 ·Bright House
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| said by spenster:
quote:
The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled.
The frog may not notice it at first but the frog's body does have a threshold. Sooner or later it will notice.
Yes, but by the time it notices the damage is done. The muscles are in such poor shape it can't jump out or away. In such, it slowly boils to death. Haven eaten frog out in the middle of the boonies, while I "lived off the land", I can attest that it does happen that way. |
|
