Saku Ytti wrote on 24/07/2020 14:56:
I've had few upgrades since LS1010+VXR network and there is a
statistically relevant correlation to more bandwidth demand related to
the upgrade cycles
For sure, everyone's bandwidth consumption has increased over the years
and that's what's driven backhaul and last mile upgrades. Even Granny
uses Netflix these days.
None of these usage patterns would have been significantly impacted by a
change in billing model in the longer term because the marginal cost per
bit is low enough that any organisation attempting to charge per bit was
undercut / outmaneuvered by other organisations who didn't. It's only
on very high cost services like airline IP that you end up paying per
bit, but that's because it's pretty expensive to deliver that service to
start with.
In the very early days of internet commercialisation, there was a case
for per-use billing, but that was when people were using IGS for core
and blended costs per meg for ip transit were hovering around the $250k
mark, i.e. a not-insignificant portion of an organisation's annual
turnover. I was very happy to configure "no ip accounting". And
disable the per-connected-time accounting scripts for the dialup pool
(€12.30 per hour in 1992, if you were wondering. POTS charges not included).
if you cherry-pick the lowest 70% users.
This is the cost / billing model that most last-mile access providers
use: send acceptable-use reminders to the top 0.5% of users rather than
getting excited about the other 99.5% who are already costed into the
model. Then make your service quality reasonable enough that people
don't ever need to call support.
Nick
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