More and more power companies are starting to do that. The electric grid has a lot of the same issues we face, though not at as high of a rate.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Tim Sylvester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:02 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing (time of use billing) > Talking about electric billing in this thread made me think of time-of-use > billing and tiered billing rate schedules for electrical usage. PG&E has > multiple rate schedules. The standard consumer rate schedule starts at > $0.115 per KWh and grows to $0.44 per KWh for usage over 300% of the > baseline. They also have time-of-use billing schedules which start at > $0.087 > per KWh during off-peak times in the summer and move up to $0.297 per KWh > during peak times. > > Has anyone considered tiered usage billing or time-of-use billing for > Internet access? It would be complicated to implement and also difficult > to > explain to customers. If Bit Torrent users are the biggest consumers of > bandwidth on a network you could benefit by encouraging them to use the > network during off hours. > > Tim > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
