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

Sat May 15 04:12:28 UTC 2004

At 06:04 PM 5/14/2004, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:

>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.

Ah, so you're only talking about inner city applications. Given I live in 
an area of single family homes, in a town whose primary industry is 
agriculture (apple orchards). When I think about serving residential users, 
I've got a very different set of circumstances in mind.

The colo model doesn't work outside urban areas.

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