It seems to me a long time ago (back in the dial up days), we restricted people from 8 AM to midnight but let them go full out and abuse the heck out of their connection if they so desired from midnight to 8 AM. We didn't *bill* differently.
Or maybe we just wanted to. I know we *told* customers that's what we did ;-). Chuck On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Tim Sylvester 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/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" >From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
