[101894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taran Rampersad)
Sun Jan 20 13:02:40 2008
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:38:17 -0400
From: Taran Rampersad <cnd@knowprose.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4793391F.2070203@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> As long as the companies convince people that the "cap" is large
> enough to be essentially the same as unmetered then most people won't
> care and will take the savings. The other angle is to convince the
> 95% of customers that caps will actually deliver them a faster speed
> as the "evil 5%ers" won't be slowing them down by hogging the bandwidth.
> Having a cap and slowing down afterward (64kbps or 128kbps are
> typical) is what worked here in Oz. It also removes a whole lot of
> credit related issues. Consumers get a product where they know what
> they're getting - it's fast upto a point and then it slows down.
This makes a lot of sense. And if it worked in Oz...
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