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Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

  • From: Quinn Kuzmich
  • Date: Fri Jan 18 15:28:50 2008
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> Of course, there are ways around this, such as pricing the "base GB"
> below the unlimited plans.  Then parents who surf the web for 20
> minutes a day might beat their kids into turning off eDonkey and save
> some cash.  Suddenly _everyone_ is happy - except the kids.  But since
> they don't pay cable bills, no one cares.
>

You are sadly mistaken if you think this will save anyone any cash,
even light users.  Their prices will not change, not a chance.
Upgrade your network instead of complaining that its just kids
downloading stuff and playing games.

Q