[348] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Double Dipping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
Wed Sep 14 20:44:06 1994
From: ldg@skidmore.EDU (Leo D. Geoffrion)
To: arthur@wugate.wustl.edu (Matt Arthur)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 20:25:44 EDT
Cc: nelsonp@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU, resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9409141125.D22472-0100000@wugate.wustl.edu>; from "Matt Arthur" at Sep 14, 94 12:02 pm
Matt Arthur writes:
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>
> Also, you can't really use the analogy of the campus atheletic
> facility either. Sure, students pay for the facility and then may not
> use it. What they are not doing is paying it twice and then not using
> it. By paying for both modem access to campus accounts AND paying for
> ethernet access they are being required to pay for two methods of
> recieving access to the same service.
>
The athletic facilities are an interesting analogy since they are not
a single entity, but a range of facilities. I may use the tennis
courts, but not the pool and track. Does that mean I should be
charged differently than someone who uses more than one?
We seen the modems and the network as parts of an integrated whole,
rather than as separate services. If you consider it as a whole, then
you should consider how the fees steer folks toward one service over
another. If you want people on the net instead of the modems, they you
need to consider what you do to make it more attractive than the modems.
For example, we've chosen not to charge for network access to make it
parallel to modems. IN both cases, the user purchases the adapter
(modem or MAC) that goes into the micro, but we don't charge extra for
the network access because we do NOT want people opting for modems to
save money.
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