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

Sat Jan 9 16:37:23 UTC 2016

The normal consumer has no way to correlate what the "real" cost is as the 
providers keep their "costs" for bandwidth, transit, etc. proprietary 
secrets and always lie to the consumer and muddy the picture of what the ISP 
actually pays for regarding bits!

Additionally, until there can be proper tools that are "certified" for 
measuring usage, then usage based billing will never be viable.

Robert Webb

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 10:11:29 -0600 (CST)
  Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> My point on usage based billing isn't meant to stifle anything, but 
>to provide equitable service to everyone at a fair price. $10/gig 
>certainly isn't a fair price for almost any network. People pay 
>variable rates for water, electricity, gas, food, etc., etc. 
> 
> Is it necessarily a bad thing if people stop to think about what 
>their usage costs? 
> 
> 
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> http://www.ics-il.com 