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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
> One notable thing about per-bit pricing, as well, is that once one > provider really rolls it out and pushes it at a low cost, it's bound > to become a surety. Suddenly the provider with per-bit billing will > be able to steal all of the low-usage customers, while leaving the > expensive near-saturation customers at other providers... effectively > raising their cost per DS1... I have seen it argued several times that if the price is "low enough", customers prefer a fixed price, even if that price is slightly higher than they could get by a variable-rate pricing scheme. Why do you think per-bit pricing would be significantly different here? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected]
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