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Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko () invisiblehand net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:03 -0400
Hello Fellow NANOG'ers,I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable? The company that I work for developed a piece of technology which, through rate-limit statements, allow customers to buy/sell bandwidth "on demand". Now, I was thinking: "Why can't we take this technology that we've tested successfully in a colo environment and adapt it a little bit for personal/buisness-class ISP's to allow them to bill for the bandwidth that a customer uses, and only that with the exception of a base monthly fee (to cover the DSL/T1 loop, e-mail services, support, etc.) of a few dollars.
Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people who don't neccessarily need to get on the Internet at high-speed, get on high-speed which will not only increase revenue for the ISP's, but also for the customer who can now use DSL/T1 access in a much more effective way.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko Network Operations Center Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. help () invisiblehand net 1-866-MERKATO (USA) 1-812-355-5908 (Intl) <http://www.invisiblehand.net>
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