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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Lessons from the AU model
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mark Newton wrote: Power is metered. Water is metered. Gas is metered. Heating oil is metered. Even cable-TV is packaged so that you pay more if you want to use more channels... I know of places in my nick of the world where all those are flat-rate. When the usage difference is small enough, metering is not effective. Typical dorm here includes power, water, (gas is usually not used, but most of the places that have gas charge ~ USD15 per month per apartment for gas, flatrate), and heating. Basic cable included in rent. I also know of quite a few regular apartments that have this model. In my apartment I pay for power. Water, heating and basic cable is included in the monthly fee. Some claim that metering is 50% of cost in the telco industry, and I have no reason to doubt that. Staying out of metering saves money on all levels, less complex equipment, less supportcalls, less hassle with billing. I am also hesitant regarding billing when a person is being DDOS:ed. How is that handled in .AU? I can see billing being done on outgoing traffic from the customer because they can control that, but what about incoming, the customer has only partial control over that. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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