Talk with Marlon at Odessa Office Equipment. He's been doing bandwidth caps
for years.

Cameron

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Jason Novinger <jnovin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> They WISP that I work with actually implements no bandiwdth caps and
> uses it as a marketing strategy against the local cable company. The
> cable company uses the model of guaranteeing speeds, but charging $x
> for y GB over some arbitrary cap. They also provide a package geared
> for video that has no bandwidth caps, but also does not guarantee any
> speed.
>
> Also, given AT&T's, the other local competitor, decision to implement
> caps, this WISP is the _only_ local provider that does have any sort
> of caps.
>
> Holler off-list if you would like more specifics.
>
> Jason
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Dan <deathandta...@caglan.net> wrote:
> > We operate a small WISP plant that is becoming outmoded and is scheduled
> > to be replaced.  Previously we have had a tiered pricing scheme but the
> > video explosion has had a severe impact on our existing plant.  We are
> > looking at better future-proofing our next deployment with the right
> > model, which we believe to be either the billed-for-heavy-usage model or
> > block pricing.
> >
> > Without getting into discussion about the evils of bandwidth caps too
> > much, are there any examples of how WISP's are managing this?  Can
> > anyone provide examples of end-user agreement language pertaining to
> > this, the simpler the better?
> >
> > Also, what software or management platform are people using to monitor
> > and automate billing of overages, etc?
> >
> > Feel free to reply to me off-list if needed.
> >
> > --Dan P.
> >
> >
> >
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