Comcast/etc....meter it YES
JD Runyan
Jason.Runyan at NITCKC.USDA.Gov
Sat Jan 26 16:31:11 CST 2002
Lets send these to the list?
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From: Patrick Miller <pert at ygbd.tas-kc.com>
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To: bradmiller at dslonramp.com (Bradley Miller)
Subject: Re: Comcast/etc....meter it YES
I am all for Metered pricing. I always avoided unlimited dialup accounts. I
used the 200 hour accounts more than I would ever need, but those that
abused paid for the extra lines needed. Give me the fast connection. Let me
do with it what I want. Don't say I get x bandwidth and try an find tricky
ways to get us to fit in your parameters. I am paying for x bandwidth let me
do with it what I want and pay for the extra data. Just don't nickel and
dime me for $50/ month I should be getting a size able chunk of gigs 30
sounds good. If I use that many every month I would be using more than I am
paying for, but on average if I use more than that I will be abusing the
system and pay for it. Less than that and you know you have room to grow.
Its the law of averages. For the average user --- on my cell phone I get
more minutes than I will use, but I know I have a buffer.
Perhaps a good level is 10 gigs.. I haven not seen a chart of average usage
for a cable or dsl node.
More at end....
Bradley Miller wrote:
What about metered pricing though? Every other commodity is priced that
way. We buy a gallon of gas, get water based on so many thousand gallons
and electriciy is by the kilowatt/hour. Why not bandwidth? Would your
download habits change? If the price was right I could see a minimum
connect charge (say $15/month) and then a $??/gig transfer fee. Will
people yell? Yes -- they are to used to the "give me all I can get"
mentality. The Internet "metality" is free, but somewhere along the line
someone forgot to mention that the infrastructure has to be paid for
somehow. We'd all love a 6 lane highway from KC to St. Louis, but once we
realize who's paying for it . . .
The new 3G wireless phones are on the brink of coming out -- but how do you
price them? Do you think they're honestly going to let someone tie a cell
and bandwidth to be "Mr. MP3 Jukebox" for 1/2 the country?
-- Bradley Miller
>
> Personally, I think they should have metered bandwidth with pricepoints for
> different levels of data connections. I'm not saying have a
> "20gig/$50/month" limit, more like a window for download speeds. If you
> have one PC, do you need more than 400K/sec? A tiered pricing structure
> would give people the best of both worlds.
Yes and no. You should probably pay a little more for a faster connection,
but probably not. If they have a faster connection they will enjoy the
connection more, and thus reach the limit faster.
Someone with a 384 connection who downloads the full pipe all the time is
probably causing more problems than someone who bursts upto 4 megs a few
times a month but avereges 128k/month.
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JD Runyan
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