[93777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sun Dec 24 19:57:22 2006
In-Reply-To: <458F1EF5.8000308@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:55:47 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Dec 24, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> That said ISP's should simply have a package saying "50GiB/month costs
> XX euros, 100GiB/month costs double" etc.
In the U.S. and Canada, the expectation has been set to an assumption
of 'unlimited' bandwdith consumption for a fixed price in the
consumer market. AT&T WorldNet helped popularize that model early-on
(you can thank or curse Tom Evslin for that, according to your
inclinations, heh), and it has become de rigeur for most U.S./
Canadian broadband SPs to follow suit.
Which raises a related question of whether North American operators
believe that offering value-added services such as placeshifting
(which is a familiar enough concept that a significant population of
the userbase seem to grasp the idea without a lot of explanation)
might prove amenable to metered billing?
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