Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
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>> To put it another way, what, exactly, do you mean when you say
>> "usage".
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> Total number of bits of data transferred in either direction, of any
> type and protocol. IOW I don't care, and shouldn't have to. The ISPs
> should provide the service their customers want, calculate the cost,
> then bill them accordingly. If the price is prohibitively high, then
> ISPs should offer tiered service levels, but this wholesale capping,
> throttling and DPI is totally unacceptable, and IMHO just an excuse.
Isn't capping a fundamental part of a tiered service?
I'm personally not a great fan of DPI nor of throttling.
Anyway, back to my question - would you be prepared to pay more for a
longer link, say? ie., do you think you should pay more for a packet
which has gone around the world 1/2 way, compared to one which only went
a few kilometres?
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>> Whilst I see your point, I don't think this is as simple as you are
>> suggesting.
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> I don't pretend to understand the intricacies of running an ISP, or
> billing millions of customers, but I'm more than a little sceptical
> about exactly what is supposedly so difficult about allowing people
> to pay for a higher level of service, instead of treating them like
> lepers and punishing them, whilst claiming they have no options.
>
I'm not suggesting that anyone should be treated like a leper, or indeed
should be punished, I'm merely pointing out that there are some nasty
intricacies to this kind of billing.
Personally, I'd rather see PBB-TE for reliable connections, billed in a
similar way to the way we do PSTN billing now, ie., against CDRs, and
then a charge against bits/month for best-effort. Even so, though, this
is a substantial undertaking, rather than a trivial one.
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