Though I see the attraction, over time I think aggregate quantity caps will not be a good way to price your services as a central feature of the account. I see too much of a hassle for both users and providers. Users want to be able to take advantage of Internet services of their choosing; they will not always want to be doing mental gymnastics to see if x new thing they do will push them over their cap. It may be fair to have some very high number that may result in a surcharge, but that cap should be very high and the warnings clear and accompanied by advice about what services might threaten the limit (such a daily downloads of feature length content).
Better I think to simply offer service tiers with respect to speeds they can choose with you setting an oversubscription ratio you think your market will tolerate relative to price to performance. For sure "all you can eat" in terms of speed at any one moment is a terrible model since you set yourself up to fail; as users accrue on the sector that max speed will necessarily moderate and your early users will be unhappy and feel cheated. They shouldn't, but it is the phenomenon of sense of entitlement. Even if there is only one person on the sector, you need to manage expectations. Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fred Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:22 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Service Offerings,By Speed or All You Can Eat? Was:Advanced Bandwidth Management > > George Rogato wrote: > > Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > > > >> He's back down, close to a normal user now and loves his > >> netflix..... It's a FAR more cost effective mechanism for getting > >> his movies to him. > > > > Netflix has started doing an online download your movie deal. The > > dvd's will eventually go out of favor. > > > > So, back to "how are we going to handle this" in comparison to DSL and > > Cable providers, who most likely will prtner with netflix and others > > and not have cap on their usage. I wouldn't say that they have no cap. Just unpublished and not easy to determine it seems. Is my math way off or is 300GB/month only approx 1Mbps (999kbps) sustained? <http://consumerist.com/consumer/comcast/comcast-customer-uses-unlimited -service-excessively-gets-disconnected-for-a-year-235585.php> -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(190). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
