On Friday, 24 July, 2020 14:52, "Nick Hilliard" <[email protected]> said:
> 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. Not forgetting the cost of billing *disputes*. It's been a couple of decades since I worked in residential Internet, but when I did, if the customer called you, ever, for any reason, the contract was essentially running at a loss. I can't imagine margins have got better... Regards, Tim. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
