[9500] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Flat Rate vs. Prime Time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei N. Deng)
Thu Jan 6 23:51:40 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 12:36 EST
From: "Wei N. Deng" <0006001506@mcimail.com>
To: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
Cc: Gregory=Kushmerek <Gregory=Kushmerek%AcctgMed%FIN@humres-server.net.tufts.edu>
Cc: com priv <com-priv@psi.com>
On Wed, 5 Jan 1994 Gregory=Kushmerek%AcctgMed%FIN@humres-server.net.tufts.edu
wrote:
> I've had reason to look around at different service providers recently
> (I'm helping an organization find a service provider who can cut some
> kind of bulk rate for up to 400 people).
>
> While sifting through some different plans, I noticed that some
> people have "Prime Time" charges much as the phone company. Just out
> of curiousity, does it make a difference? Is this policy there to
> keep the load low at that time or is it there to make just 'a little
> more'?
The prime time rate does make difference to the carriers. It can keep the load
low because some of the "price sensitive" traffic will be shifted to non-prime
time( residential calls); it also can make " a lot of more" for the carriers
because most of the business traffics are not elastic to the price.
Wei
