On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 07:45 +0800, Danny Ching wrote:
> That's what i keep telling our general services. They say kasi
> commercial daw ang line kaya 4k for a stinking 500kbps. is this true?
> anyone from PLDT or SMART here? Pag 700kbps 11k DAW!
sure. ISPs have always charged multiples for commercial
accounts versus residential accounts. It's similar to the
way power and water (and phone, I think) utilities charge
more for commercial accounts too.
the commercial accounts subsidize the residential accounts.
for power and water those are actual official reasons for
the variance (well, in cagayan de oro, anyway, not sure about
elsewhere).
there are other official rationalizations for the
variance too, among them,
* commercial accounts often require static IPs, so the
ISP charges more (although often static IPs are a
separate charge),
* commercial accounts are allowed to run servers
(residential accounts are theoretically not allowed
to do the same, if you do and use dyndns, then the
telco may turn off access to your server (firewalling
the port) and you won't be able to do anything about
it.
* commercial accounts likely use more bandwidth (might
have been true years ago, likely no longer true with
bittorrent and similar being so prevalent).
as a practical matter, because workarounds (dyndns, etc)
are so easy (unless you're working with an ISP which gives
you a private IP and then just NATs your traffic [at least
two smartbro accounts i've seen were like this, although
that might have changed by now]), it generally comes down
to charging more for commercial accounts BECAUSE THEY CAN.
i've seen the same price difference in the U.S., it's not
just a philippine (or PLDT) thing.
tiger
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