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RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
From: Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:16:28 +1300 (NZDT)
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Rod Beck wrote:
According to the article these types of plan are well established like Australia. And that makes sense. The cost of private line connectivity into Australia is very high, although it has probably fallen due to Southern Cross raising their capacity. Whenever this packet-switched network gets stressed, these types of pricing schemes are probably only solution outside of rationing 'the bandwidth hogs'.
Drop in rates? You're optimistic!I'm glad someone pointed out that the sort of arrangement being proposed isn't all that unusual outside of the US.
In New Zealand, I pay for a fixed amount (which I can specify) and upon exceeding that amount I get rate-limited to 64k/s. I can elect to pay for additional bandwidth (takes effect very quickly) and 'top up' my monthly allowance if I wish.
http://www.xnet.co.nz/hsi/Truth is that there's plenty of Internet Users out there who will save money[1] by not subsidising the usage of others... your mom-and-pop types who use broadband for its convenience, not its high monthly usage ceiling.
Mark.[1] This does assume, as already pointed out, that the charging rate for this service is fairly balanced against the baseline set by the true 'flat rate' plans... which should be an option - but you should also be paying a reasonable rate for the priviledge.
Current thread:
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US, (continued)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 16)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Fredy Kuenzler (Jan 16)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Simon Lockhart (Jan 16)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Gadi Evron (Jan 16)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Jeroen Massar (Jan 16)
- Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US Jim Mercer (Jan 17)
- An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Rod Beck (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Jeff Shultz (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Rod Beck (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Mark Foster (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Tomas L. Byrnes (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Brandon Galbraith (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial James R. Cutler (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial michael.dillon (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Tomas L. Byrnes (Jan 18)
- Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial William Herrin (Jan 18)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial michael.dillon (Jan 20)
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- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial michael.dillon (Jan 20)
- RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial Rod Beck (Jan 18)