[2427] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Billing Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Wed Feb 26 21:57:55 1992
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 18:55:09 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: craig@aland.bbn.com
Cc: jhaverty@us.oracle.com, drw@bourbaki.mit.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Craig Partridge's message of Wed, 26 Feb 92 18:33:25 -0800 <9202270233.AA13759@aland.bbn.com>
Hi Craig -- all I'm saying is that if the only option offered is a flat-rate
one, unless the cost is really minimal (e.g., local phone calls) the result will
be that the bulk of the customers are ones who use the service a lot - i.e.,
they tend to saturate or at least keep their access line fairly busy during most
os the workday. People who don't expect to have that level of usage simply
won't sign up for the service, because they *think* they'll be paying too much
for what they actually use. At Oracle, we operate in 90+ countries, and
international costs are high enough that this fact of life becomes very obvious.
Jack
