I think it makes sense to charge per usage. Compare it with electricity or water. Would you think it's appropriate if everyone paid the same? I don't think so. I think those who use more should also pay more. But there should not be monopolies, the price will be made by market offer & demand. But if I want a fast Internet connection, and I'm using a very low bandwidth, I don't want to pay the same as people who are downloading 3GB per day. And vice versa.
Of course, the best would be if all of us could get the fastest connection for free. Maybe this will be the case in the future, but it is not now. So I think companies like Netvision have the right to limit the bandwidth for packages of 39 shekels per month. Uri. Dharamsala (north India) [with a very low bandwidth] On 4/20/06, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Looking for another ISP (a > bit off topic)": > > Hi, > > I just saw the news in > > ynet:http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3241600,00.html - Netvisionhas > > started charging extra for users who downloaded over 5GB a month. > > Naturally, since I'm testing every now and then a new version ofvarious > > Linux distributions, plus some other heavy bandwidth relatedwork, I'm > > bypassing the limit of 5GB within a 3-4 days, and I'm notprepared to play > > some heavy "fines" or their "business" package. > > This is a really off-topic, but I think that some type of "pay more if you > use more" indeed makes sense. I'll explain: > > ISPs used to market ADSL and cable connection as "fast Internet". I think > this was a wrong view. For many users (think of your parents, grandparents, > neighbors, etc.), the benefit of these connections over the old modem > connection isn't that you can download 3 gigabytes a day, but rather that > you can: > > 1. Be connected all day, and don't need to "dial" when you want to send > an email, or when you think you *might* have a new email and want to > check. > Moreover, being on the Internet doesn't use up your phone line. > > 2. Have a moderately fast connection for short bursts, such as Internet > browsing or email fetching. These users don't need 2 MB per second, but > 7 KB per second (the old modem speed) was too slow. > > In a perfect world, a user that needs a connection like this - an always-on > roughly-modem-speed connection, should need to pay the ISP very little, as > little as a few shekels a month, because they hardly use any resources from > the ISP. Unfortunately, you can't give such users cheap coonections without > differentiating between them and the user that DO use up a lot of expensive > resources, like international and IIX bandwidth. > > This doesn't mean, however, that prices need to be absurdly high or dis- > continuous. It doesn't make sense to sell to "typical" users connections > for 50 shekels a month, while charging a user that use slightly more in > some month around 500 shekels as a "business user". But if your bill varied > from 10 shekels a month for very low users, through 50 shekels to average > users, to 100 shekels a months for very heavy users, what's really wrong > with that? How is that any different than what happens in any other utility > like phone, cellphone, electricity, water, and so on? > > Of course, if they bill by volume, I hope they have a way to do it reliably > and keep the bill limited. I'd hate to see someone get a 10,000 shekels bill > because someone else tried a DoS attack on him, for example! > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Apr 20 2006, 22 Nisan 5766 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A conclusion is simply the place where > http://nadav.harel.org.il |you got tired of thinking. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
