[132705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Warren)
Tue Nov 30 09:45:00 2010
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:47:53 -0500
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/30/2010 12:09 AM, Andrew Koch wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 22:17, William Herrin<bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>
>> So you're saying: treat it like electrical service. I have a 200 amp
>> electrical service at my house. But I don't pay for a 200 amp service,
>> I pay for kilowatt-hours of usage.
>>
>> There are several problems transplanting that billing model to
>> Internet service. The first you've already noticed - marketing
>> activity has rendered it unsalable. But that's not the only problem.
> Not quite. Look at mobile data plans. A very few are unlimited, most
> are per byte.
I don't know of a single data plan that's unlimited. they all have
either 5 gig or lower transfer caps. That's not unlimited no matter
what the lawyers or marketers day.
>
> Andy Koch
>
