Ok, I have another suggestion for ADSL pricing:-

Telecom could bill the customer $59 for the ADSL service and the ISP could
bill the customer for traffic. In this way the customer could shop around
and get the best rate for his traffic i.e. get National traffic at a
different rate than International traffic. If Telecom are worried about
maintaining IP Net they could charge the customer a small traffic based levy
say 1 or 2 cents per Meg.

What do you guys think?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan.langille@dvl-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 April 1999 21:04
> To: adsl@freebsddiary.cx
> Subject: RE: ADSL Pricing
>
>
> On 29 Apr 99, at 20:47, Marcus Steeneken wrote:
>
> > Ok, perhaps 3Gb / month is a bit excessive, but 300Mb /
> month wouldn't even
> > cover email. Maybe 1Gb / month is a bit more realistic.
>
> I was reading a Computer World article tonight, perhaps dated last
> week. It quoted some Telecom person saying that most of the
> trialists
> did not exceed the 300M limit. And that those that did were
> continuously streaming video or downloading huge amounts of graphics.
> I don't believe that. Not for an instant.
>
> Telecom don't know who downloaded what. Telecom know how much
> was downloaded and how many machines were on the net at that time.
> Telecom then dervived the stats. I think it was "70% were
> under 300M".
> Well, is that 70% of all trialists or just 70% of the people
> on the net at
> that time?
>
> Regardless of the answer, I feel the stats are at best inaccurate, at
> worst outright misleading. As for the comment made by the Telecom
> person, it may be called "marketing" or "PR" but anyone that
> would join
> ADSL based on that would find out the truth soon enough. How many
> people know how much they download when using a modem? I think
> they will be very surprised.
>
> Also, I would like to see stats now that tell us how much each user
> downloads. I don't need to see IPs or names. Just User 1 -
> x M. etc.
> I highly doubt that 70% of people will be under 300M and use the net
> ever day. Which, IMHO, the majority of ADSL users do. We are, for a
> significant portion, highly technical and not your "average" user.
>
> > I know that saturn are planning to deliver 500Mb / month
> for $69 / month for
> > a 2Meg cable modem with a STATIC IP address.
>
> That sounds like me! When do they start? FWIW, I got Saturn as soon
> as it was available merely for the hope they would do cable
> modems. I'll
> be checking them out ASAP.
>
> Does anyone have a telephone number or expected launch date? Last I
> heard, they were just finishing off the billing system and
> that was their
> last hurdle.
>
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