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Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:14:42 +0530
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:25:56 -0500 (EST), Greg Boehnlein <damin () nacs net> wrote:
How about we regulat the Internet like the Electric Utility and charge per byte transferred? :)
You know, that's already happening Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1] broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes "most" srs [1] (and I mean really high speed, compared to what gets sold as DSL stateside, and way, way over the $75 a month, 3 gig transfer capped 512K dsl line I use in India)
Current thread:
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance, (continued)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Joe Abley (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Randy Bush (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Lucy E. Lynch (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Jaap Akkerhuis (Mar 31)
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- RE: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance ehall (Mar 31)