 karlmarx
join:2006-09-18 iraq
·Fairpoint Communic..
| Re: WTF? Yes yes yes, you keep saying 'bill by the byte'. But name ONE ISP in the US that does that. Look at it this way.. If grandma only uses 1GB/month, does that mean her bill will only be $11.00. I mean, she only used 1GB. That cost the ISP a total of $0.10 dollars (10 cents). So they charge a base fee of $10.00, and then charge grandma $1.00 for bandwith. Now, BIG P2P user does 300GB/month. Charge him $10.00 + 60.00 for bandwidth, so he pays $70.00 a month.
Once they do THAT, then I will accept the 'bill by the byte model'. But they will NEVER DO THAT, because lets be fair, their revenue would DROP by 90%, because the only ones who WOULD use their service would be grandma, and everyone else would go to an ISP without caps.
Bill by the byte will NEVER work. I won't pay for Ads, I won't pay for SPAM, and I won't pay for DDOS attacks. -- The happiest countries are the most secular. The struggle AGAINST corporations is the struggle FOR humanity! |