Saku Ytti wrote on 24/07/2020 14:36: > Yes. Transmission cost would be fixed and cover the cost of delivering > the first bit, consumption cost would be variant and cover the cost of > adding capacity, this is the model for electricity in some markets and > I think it's a great model. In some markets transmission you can buy > only from one player, depending on location, but consumption you can > buy from anyone.
yep, that works fine for electricity because the cost of generating electricity is a significant percentage of the amount that the end user pays. I.e. the marginal cost is significant, so it's worth billing per kWh. If this model had been a better way of charging for residential ip data delivery, it would have been deployed a long time ago, but the marginal cost per bit isn't worth it in the majority of cases because the cost of mass billing is so high. Nick _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
