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Article #321Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'
From: Roy
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:05
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:05
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Bill Z. wrote: > John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> writes: > >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:50 -0400, jayjwa <jayjwa@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> >> wrote in <x7d4lqt381.fsf@vdrl.ath.cx>: >> > >>> The first home Internet connections were like that. I remember years >>> ago when AOL made its big start. The usage was metered and you'd have >>> one eye on the clock, one on what you were doing. Several of my first >>> accounts were like that. You'd get so many "hours" of use, and beyond >>> that, you'd pay through the nose for each minute/hour/unit over >>> time. Flat-rate was when Internet took off. Before that, people used >>> to get pissed at stuff like a 6-line signature because their usage was >>> metered. This was more by connection time and you are talking more >>> about data size, but the idea is the same: some ticker running out on >>> you. Let's move forward, not backwards. >> That makes no sense. The market only works when price signals are >> related to actual cost, and flat rate pricing is clearly broken. > > Unfortunately, metered pricing is broken too. How would you charge > for email, for example? Should the user pay per byte to receive > spam? Should the sender pay and if so, how do you bill the sender? > If someone whose computer is hijacked ends up with an astronomical > bill one month, the likely result will be a customer who decides > that the Internet isn't worth it. > > The other problem is that you can't determine how much data you > are getting in advance - try to do that with a web page whose > server is using chunked encoding. If you can't determine the > price before buying it, a market-based approach simply doesn't > work. > > Bill > I like the European cell phone model. The caller pays the for the call.
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