[9249] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: an Internet buying coop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sun Dec 26 15:16:42 1993
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1993 12:16:32 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 1:07 PM 12/26/93 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> Karl, I think your choice of words indicates the answer. In the voice
>> world, where the telephone is an accepted necessity that few homes,
>> much less businesses, would dream of doing without, metered service is
>> "tolerated" by businesses. They tolerate it only because they have no
>> choice. It is resisted heatedly by the public. I think the evidence
>> shows pretty clearly that people do not like metered service.
>
>Yep, it does. Yet they don't dislike it <that> much -- at least not to
>the point where they will all convert to a flat-rate charge.
Karl, as Dick pointed out above (which it seems you didn't "hear") the
public DOES resist any attempt to shift residential service from unmetered
to metered -- ie. they dislike metered service a great deal.
>MCSNet, as an example, offers both <unmetered> and <metered> services. We
>have plenty of people who like both. ...
Perhaps your experience is based on a metered vs. unmetered rate structure
that makes the choice much less obvious; or perhaps those of your users who
go for the metered service are business users who, as Dick noted above, are
accustomed to metered service; or perhaps some people don't know that they
have a choice?
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
