[101983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jan 22 02:33:33 2008
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:29:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A0B7AE29-3812-455D-8FC0-6DD0E9DE349E@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mark Newton wrote:
> That means "unlimited" ISPs almost exclusively attract the
> most voracious, least profitable, noisiest, most difficult
> to support, loudest complaining customers. And the metered
> ISPs cater for normal folks who aren't like that.
Ah, you've discovered our secret plan.
If the US stops being the flat-rate P2P seeder to the world, what
is the rest of the world going to do? Or is it going to topple
countries one by one into metering?
Are the flat-rate Swedish ISPs are going to get stuck footing the bill
for the most voracious, least profitable, noisiest, most difficult to
support, loudest complaining customers for the world :-)
