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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
Tim Salo writes... > [...] > The easiest point to measure traffic is undoubtedly on the link between > the customer and its ISP. I believe that many ISPs are already > measuring the total amount of traffic into and out of each customer. > I even saw a complicated pricing formula from one ISP which added a > surcharge cor customers which passed a lot of traffic over the last time > period (some number of months, I seem to recall). So, at least at one point, > we already have at least one example of an ISP which had a component > of its pricing based on the amount of traffic transferred over a > dedicated connection. Metered pricing is already a reality with at least a couple of providers that I know of. Interestingly enough, I switched primary providers a few months ago because my provider at the time was switching from a flat rate scheme to a metered one. The end result was that at my current usage level, my monthly rate would more than double. I'm not exactly sure what conclusions you can draw from this, so I'll just stop now. -- Matt Ranney - [email protected] This is how I sign all my messages. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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