Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
Jim Dixon
jdd at vbc.net
Fri Oct 25 20:55:10 UTC 1996
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> To my way of thinking, content providers are net producers of 'benefit'
> and say dial-up users are consumers. We adjust our prices to reflect
> this: if you buy a leased line from us to run a Web server, we charge
> you less; if you are a dial-up provider, we charge you more.
>
> Most end users would agree with this model. They pay their 10 quid /
> 15 bucks a month so that they can surf the Web. They don't expect the
> Net to pay them ;-)
>
> So basically what you're saying here is that your ISP should be paying
> you to connect to your web servers, and they will pass the charges on
> downstream to their customers?
That's not far off from what I am saying, except that you have the
roles confused.
I am saying that
* we (a backbone ISP)
* charge customer ISPs whose primary business is dialup
* (net consumers of benefit)
* more than those whose business is selling Web space
or
who operate a Web server
* (net producers of benefit)
We don't do dial-up ourselves; many of our customers do.
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