Re: Lessons from the AU model (was: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial)

2008-01-21 Thread Tim Franklin
On Sun, January 20, 2008 11:40 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: > Thanks to the pricing model imposed on last-mile connectivity imposed > by the incumbent, it costs an ISP US$471/Mbit to send data to my > customer[1]. Maybe the same data that's just come all the way from Oz > through my transit for US$1

Re: Lessons from the AU model (was: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial)

2008-01-20 Thread Andy Davidson
Hi, On 20 Jan 2008, at 16:37, Andrew Odlyzko wrote: The more sensible end of town pays about $80 per month for about 40 Gbytes of quota, give or take, depending on the ISP. After that they get shaped to 64 kbps unless they want to pay more for more quota. I replied offlist to Andrew wi