[70428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan M. Slivko)
Fri May 14 17:22:39 2004
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:03 -0400
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@invisiblehand.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello Fellow NANOG'ers,
I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable? The
company that I work for developed a piece of technology which, through
rate-limit statements, allow customers to buy/sell bandwidth "on
demand". Now, I was thinking: "Why can't we take this technology that
we've tested successfully in a colo environment and adapt it a little
bit for personal/buisness-class ISP's to allow them to bill for the
bandwidth that a customer uses, and only that with the exception of a
base monthly fee (to cover the DSL/T1 loop, e-mail services, support,
etc.) of a few dollars.
Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for
what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people who
don't neccessarily need to get on the Internet at high-speed, get on
high-speed which will not only increase revenue for the ISP's, but also
for the customer who can now use DSL/T1 access in a much more effective way.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
-- Jonathan
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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
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