There has always been talk about the internet using a utility billing model, in which there is a minimum usage and then charged for anything over the minimum. Such as I pay for water, I get 3000 gallons for one price, anything over is charged by gallon.
Electricity, Natural Gas and water all do this and now you see electric utilities giving you feedback to what you are using, smart metering. I suspect gas and water will follow suit, but being in the technical industry, there is no reason now that you can't be giving the client that information as well. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mark Nash <markl...@uwol.net> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 15:54:54 -0700 >To follow through some thinking here... > >If that device was "Billing-Server-Package-Aware" then you could offer a >higher level of service for HD customers that allowed the Netflix >service to sense a "higher-bandwidth" connection and it may be more >likely to stream in HD than SD. I say "offer"...the flip side of >"offer" is "charge for", at a higher rate, of course. > >There are always those who "gotta have it"... > >On 5/2/2011 3:50 PM, David E. Smith wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 17:32, Marco Coelho <coelh...@gmail.com >> <mailto:coelh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Has anybody worked on allowing streaming video up to lets say 10 >> Mb total transfer, then knocking THAT stream down to a slow rate? >> >> >> I tried something like that a while back - we got so very many angry >> phone calls that the boss had us discontinue it in less than a week. >> We actually didn't try to limit by video type, just "any single >> ongoing TCP transaction," but in practice it only affected audio and >> video streaming, Microsoft Update, and MMO patches. >> >> I'm sure someone out there would be glad to sell you a content-aware >> filtering device for many thousands of dollars, if you're so inclined. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
