Do you know of a all you can eat plan for 1xRTT? ...
The quote I've been offered (purportedly from a carrier exec) is "we won't make *that* mistake again".
IOW: "we don't care if we ever get any real market penetration, and we haven't learned the "flat-rate sells and measured-rate doesn't" lesson the *6* other times we've been beaten with the cluestick."
I know from whence he/she comes. As a past operator of a dial-up ISP I can remember just how annoyed it was when we switched to unlimited flat-rate. There were always a couple of folks who just tied up lines continuously. It was ever so much easier when I had tiered service. I even went so far as to tell one guy to go to my competitors. Let him suck up their resources.
Usage based pricing has the advantage that it incents the subscriber to conserve resources. When the usage goes up and I need to expand the facilities, the cash flow is there to support it.
And when properly applied, most users save money doing usage-based pricing rather than flat-rate pricing. At one point we offered people the opportunity to switch to usage-based pricing and showed them how their bills for the last three months would have gone down if they switched. In spite of all sense, they stayed with flat-rate pricing. <sigh> I guess it does make billing simpler.
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