Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?

Jonathan M. Slivko jslivko at invisiblehand.net
Fri May 14 22:04:56 UTC 2004


Well - you could, to save costs, put a T3 (or multiple T3's) into a 
specific area that you want to serve and then distribute it from there 
via Ethernet. This is what we're currently doing with a 
residential/commercial building.

-- Jonathan

Daniel Senie wrote:

> At 05:22 PM 5/14/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> Hello Fellow NANOG'ers,
>>
>> I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable? The 
>> company that I work for developed a piece of technology which, through 
>> rate-limit statements, allow customers to buy/sell bandwidth "on 
>> demand". Now, I was thinking: "Why can't we take this technology that 
>> we've tested successfully in a colo environment and adapt it a little 
>> bit for personal/buisness-class ISP's to allow them to bill for the 
>> bandwidth that a customer uses, and only that with the exception of a 
>> base monthly fee (to cover the DSL/T1 loop, e-mail services, support, 
>> etc.) of a few dollars.
> 
> 
> The access line (T-1, etc.) loop charge is substantially larger than the 
> bandwidth charge. Get the phone companies to price the lines better, and 
> it might make sense.
> 
> 
>> Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for 
>> what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people 
>> who don't neccessarily need to get on the Internet at high-speed, get 
>> on high-speed which will not only increase revenue for the ISP's, but 
>> also for the customer who can now use DSL/T1 access in a much more 
>> effective way.
>>
>> Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
>>
>> -- Jonathan
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan M. Slivko
>> Network Operations Center
>> Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
>> help at invisiblehand.net
>> 1-866-MERKATO (USA)
>> 1-812-355-5908 (Intl)
>> <http://www.invisiblehand.net>

-- 
Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
help at invisiblehand.net
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