[101817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R. Cutler)
Fri Jan 18 18:58:53 2008
In-Reply-To: <8DF8AD46-8620-4477-B9A0-D2ABBCE127A9@ianai.net>
From: "James R. Cutler" <james.cutler@consultant.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:39:21 -0500
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>,
=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=93NANOG=93?= <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
As many universities found out long ago after installing Centrex
lines in dormitory rooms, the quote below is not correct. Only, in
telco-land, extended call duration was what used up the available
connection paths. No, I don't know how many Erlangs.
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On phone networks, flat rate kinda works because a single phone
> call is a very tiny fraction of the shared resource.
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
