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Ontario, CAN | Pay As You Go Quite an interesting idea. 
Wonder why it hasn't been done before? | |
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TK Junk Mail
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January 4th, @06:52PM
|  Need details on charges,but sounds like a bad idea
Below are the details on their on all the time, no caps, regular offering:
»https://www.bethere.co.uk/homebroadband.···.tomcat1
Up to 24 meg download speed
Up to 1.3 meg upload speed
Unlimited Internet access
No download caps
Free high specification wireless Be Box modem
»https://www.bethere.co.uk/priceListHome.···erType=0
Be home 24 meg Paid quarterly in advance, for the provision of your monthly home broadband Services. The first payment will be pro-rated from the time of connection to the end of the quarter £ 24.00 So, while the option is intriguing, I doubt it would be advantageous to the majority of broadband customers.
P.S. Found some details here:
»www.adslguide.org.uk/
Be is set to announce full details of a new product later in January 2006, Be lite. The product will offer an ADSL2+ service for less than £15, with a bundled usage allowance, and after that it will become a pay as you go service.
A pay as you go service which runs at up to 24Mbps, with the speed you get depending largely on the distance from the exchange, seems something of a misnomer. The appeal of the service will depend largely on the cost of extra allowance once the bundled usage has been used, but for people who use their broadband rarely but want the fastest possible speeds it may present an attractive deal.
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| thinking back to dialup Well, this has actually been done before, just not on dsl-- mostly dialup.. You got a limited number of hours and/or were charged by the hour and sent a monthly billing statement to be paid. Pre-paid is a new idea since the calling-card era for pre-paid usage beginning on pay-phones and home phones, then cell phones: now dsl 'lite'.
Anything for revenue, I guess, but I'd be more concerned with companies running dsl lines that don't have a 'guaranteed' revenue stream. Two ways to look at it, untapped marketshare, or a way to 'save money', say you go on vacation and dont' want to pay for those months... etc. POGO works for them. But, don't try it in the US, you might face some backlash. | |
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January 5th, @02:54AM
| Re: thinking back to dialup Yes, but how will this apply to DSL? Will a user be billed as being "connected" if they are logged in with PPPoE even if they are not actively using the connection? What happens if they forget to logout of PPPoE? At least with a dial-up connection you'd eventually figure out that the phone was tied up when you got that God awful screeching noise in your ear when you picked up the phone. With PPPoE clients, it'll be much easier to "forget" that you're "connected." | |
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| Re: thinking back to dialup It would seem to me that Be would charge by data usage in this model rather than time spent online, with the stipulation that after 3 months you have to "recharge" regardless. Unless I missed something.
Still too early to tell how this will pan out, but the PAYG DSL idea has good potential.
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