Yes, in my mind, that's is another component of metered billing: 1) Bill by the bit. 2) Bill for "premium"bits based upon prioirity. 3) Bill for premium time. Of course, the trick is having the proper billing package to pull it off. -RickG
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Tim Sylvester <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/
