> |The networking world is an anomaly. Everywhere else we have > |usage-based pricing (except in a few mediocre restaurants where they > |offer all-you-can-eat prices). The grocery store doesn't charge you > |a flat rate. The water company doesn't charge you a flat rate. The > |electric company doesn't charge flat-rate. > > I think you left out the utility that is most analogous to networking, though. > Most every residential telephone service offers at least one flavor of flat > rate plan. The plan I have covers most of my state. Long distance companies > are starting to offer flat-rate plans as well. So it isn't clear that the > networking world is really an anomaly among its peers.
Mapping from wired services to wireless is not straight forward. In flat-rate wireless service, possibility of service abuse (e.g., bandwidth sharing) and the loss to the service provider would be higher (per-packet resources are more precious) imo. Alper -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
