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Re: Lessons from the AU model

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Tue Jan 22 02:34:43 2008


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mark Newton wrote:
That means "unlimited" ISPs almost exclusively attract the
most voracious, least profitable, noisiest, most difficult
to support, loudest complaining customers.  And the metered
ISPs cater for normal folks who aren't like that.

Ah, you've discovered our secret plan.


If the US stops being the flat-rate P2P seeder to the world, what
is the rest of the world going to do?  Or is it going to topple
countries one by one into metering?

Are the flat-rate Swedish ISPs are going to get stuck footing the bill
for the most voracious, least profitable, noisiest, most difficult to support, loudest complaining customers for the world :-)