> On 11 Oct 2021, at 7:18 am, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > > On 10/10/21 22:10, Geoff Huston wrote: > >> I have to agree with Doug Barton's earlier observation is that the base >> problem is that the ISPs are using a flawed business model and they don't >> want to charge their customers what it really costs to provide them with >> high speed access, nor do they want to fund additional back-end capacity in >> their network without some form of offset revenue stream. > > I think ISP's do want to charge their customers what it actually costs to > provide them with a service, but they can't because many ISP's business > models are based purely on undercutting their nearest competitor. > > I might be naive and hopeful to think that operators will have a blood > handshake to set prices where customers can't wag the tail. >
In many environments, the words we use to describe this form of price setting are generally prefixed by the adjective “illegal” :-) Geoff
