Most of those are heavily funded and can operate at that point for a while. Wait till they see 80% of their customers using 18,000 minutes of off network minutes a month and see what happens! That's 300 hours a month that I used to see on dial-up usage of many customers.
Scott ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:34:04 -0500 >Cell phones and some telecom companies are the only things where you can get >an all you can eat. > >Note: I'm just playing devil's advocate and providing countering points from >other lists to see what others can bring to the conversation. > > >---------- >Mike Hammett >Intelligent Computing Solutions >http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Travis Johnson > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:44 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Broadband > > > Hi, > > Although it's a great thought, I don't think "metered" broadband will ever > catch on in the US. Even the cell phone companies are moving to an "unlimited > voice/data/SMS package for only $99" service pricing. My power company will > do a "level-pay" program on my power after being activated for a full year. > They take the average of the 12 months and that's your fixed monthly payment. > They make adjustments each year, if necessary. > > There are a couple things I see: > > (1) People would rather have a higher monthly rate, if they know it's a > fixed price. Nobody likes surprises, especially when it comes to bills. > (2) You are basically cutting your own throat by doing something like this. > Why would you go install a customer that may be a $15/mo customer (because > they only check email) compared with installing a $29/mo customer? It's the > same amount of time, equipment, customer support, tower rent, AP, etc. > > If you have people that are using more than a "fair" amount of bandwidth, > then charge them more or ask them to leave... but there's no reason to > completely remodel your pricing structure because of a few customers. > > Travis > Microserv > > Scott Reed wrote: >Half my customers have pulled less than 1G since April 16 or so when I >started tracking it. I'll be optimistic and think they would all do 1G >per month. I don't think I am going to drop a $33 per month customer >down to $2 per month. >I might consider $30 base and $2/G over X/Gig, but I haven't figured out >what X is, yet. > >Mike Hammett wrote: > So what types of rates would be appropriate for a metered broadband service? > It obviously depends on what your costs are. I'll just throw something out > to start a conversation, not necessarily reflective of any costs. > >$2/gig transferred, no other costs or limits. > >$10 base, $1.50/gig transferred, no other limits. > > >---------- >Mike Hammett >Intelligent Computing Solutions >http://www.ics-il.com > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Dial-Up Internet service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $9.99/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
