[101781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Jan 18 14:01:08 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:57:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4D7E@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Rod Beck wrote:
> http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/61251.html
So, anyone but me think that this will end in disaster? I think the model
where you get high speed for X amount of bytes and then you're limited to
let's say 64kilobit/s until you actually go to the web page and buy
another "token" for more Y more bytes at high speed? We already have this
problem with metered mobile phones, which of course is even more
complicated for users due to different rates depending on where you might
be roaming.
Customers want control, that's why the prepaid mobile phone where you get
an "account" you have to prepay into, are so popular in some markets. It
also enables people who perhaps otherwise would not be eligable because of
bad credit, to get these kind of services.
I'm also looking forward to the pricing, all the per-byte plans I have
seen so far makes the ISP look extremely greedy by overpricing, as
opposed to "we want to charge fairly for use" that is what they say in
their press statements.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
