[101787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quinn Kuzmich)
Fri Jan 18 15:28:55 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:05:09 -0700
From: "Quinn Kuzmich" <lostinmoscow@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <67ABB930-5A2A-4A2C-A701-CD52BCBEDA8D@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Of course, there are ways around this, such as pricing the "base GB"
> below the unlimited plans. Then parents who surf the web for 20
> minutes a day might beat their kids into turning off eDonkey and save
> some cash. Suddenly _everyone_ is happy - except the kids. But since
> they don't pay cable bills, no one cares.
>
You are sadly mistaken if you think this will save anyone any cash,
even light users. Their prices will not change, not a chance.
Upgrade your network instead of complaining that its just kids
downloading stuff and playing games.
Q
