Is anyone else doing Usage Based Billing? Or Peak UBB? We have noticed in the last 6 months huge exponential increases of streaming adoption especially between 6pm-midnight. Its almost getting unmanageable and we are even using a Procera device. Problem is >50% of all traffic after 6pm is streaming and it doesn't matter we would pretty much have to block all other non-streaming traffic between those hours just to make room for the streaming demand.
So we in essence have to design the network to perform during a peak window between 7pm-midnight and it just doesn't make financial sense for the network to be sitting there not being used 19 hours of the day. 100% of all new signups are asking us if we are "Unlimited" which has been a huge selling point for us. Has anyone made the jump to UBB and what was the reaction? My initial thoughts are first 500GB free and after that $10 for each block of 100GB past the first 500GB. Other factors are do we give free data between midnight-6pm so not penalizing people that are not using during peak hours? Really, Really curious to hear if anyone has made the jump and what customer reaction has been. Something has got to happen....
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