The differences is... The consumer can see the pool full of water, as it fills. The consumer can't see the bit-torrent traffic as it fills their usage budget. Or for that matter, they can't see their bandwidth usage pool filling with any type of traffic. There is no perception of traffic size, when the content probvider has the freedom to deliver it in any capacity. a Bitmap can be 5mb or 5kb, the vioewer would never know the difference when they clicked the URL to get to the page.
Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hulsebus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] More FCC News - Net Neutrality >I got a water bill last month for $210 and wasn't angry. My bill the > month before was only $30 dollars. I knew what 25,000 gallons of water > to fill my pool was going to cost me. > > I have 60 customers that I loose money on every month. I can afford the > implementation for what I will gain in revenue or gain back in > profitability; so I'm moving in that direction. > > 70 % of my customers said they would prefer it. I expect that when it's > implemented more like 90 % will like it and the other 10 % can pay for > what they really want - 24 X 7 usage of large amounts of bandwidth or not. > > I either need to make money on the account or not have it. I'm not a > charity and not subsidized to provide it at a loss. > > Dave Hulsebus > > Matt wrote: >>> usage based means tiers of prices... No matter what you tell people or >>> how >>> you warn them, if your bill this month is $100 and last month it was >>> $25, >>> they WILL BE ANGRY. >>> >>> Further, automating systems to bill per gig is kind of a pain. >>> >>> The answer, then, I guess is... convenience. >>> >> >> We were looking at throttling the over quotta users at peak times >> based on a 7-day window of usage. >> >> Matt >> > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1575 - Release Date: 7/26/2008 > 4:18 PM > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
