Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.

Mon Jan 11 19:21:08 UTC 2016

> On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:07 , Jeremy Austin <jhaustin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com <mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:
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>> My favorite is actually having enough bandwidth to meet demand. What a concept. Ought to work for terrestrial; where we run out of spectrum/bandwidth is in shared-medium last-mile. 
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> That’s not a billing model… We were talking about billing models.
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> What’s your favorite billing model?
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> Heh. I had said "fairness" — perhaps we both support unfair billing but fair supply? 
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> Two sides of the same tarnished coin, supply and demand.
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> Which model I prefer… Diogenes, when asked what kind of wine he liked best, replied "The wine of others."
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> As a user in that top 10%, I like my bandwidth subsidized by my unwitting peers. As an ISP, I'm managing to sell it AYCE, but I'm small potatoes. My opinions are my own but largely informed by what I observe for customer satisfaction, contrasting models in an uncompetitive market.

As another user in that top 10%, I don’t mind paying the freight for the data I use and I pay the extra $30/month for an unlimited plan vs. the lower tiers at lower prices.

OTOH, the other 4 lines on my account as lesser users, I’m accepting the free 1GB of LTE and then they run at 128k for the rest of the month. Two of these lines, however, are in the hands of teenagers, so I’m not willing to risk having to pay exhorbitant overage fees if they go over.

That’s what keeps me on T-Mo at the moment. There’s no way to get on Verizon and not take an overage risk (short of just paying up front for huge amounts of data every month).

With T-Mo, when they run out of data, they run out of fast data, but stuff doesn’t completely break. That’s a very nice solution for my niche.

Owen