I take offense at your tone. Subscribers cancelling due to a lack of resources is a drop in the bucket compared to other reasons, and even despite cancellations, all ISP's are growing. The point remains: flat rate systems will operate to discourage resource use, metered rate systems will encourage resource use. When was the last time AT&T suggested you *not* make that LD call? Ed -- On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Edward Henigin wrote:
When services hit 100% resource usage, there is no economic loss (aside from subscribers cancelling, which I won't deal with here).
This is pretty dumb! If you are going to talk about the economic systems aspect of tier 1 providers then you have to include subscriber cancellations and company reputation. Not to do so is roughly equivalent to discussing why people should use Cisco 75xx boxes and saying something like:
"aside from the 75xx's BGP features which I won't deal with here"
the resources available, then the difference between that demand and the available resources is potential revenue which is lost.
In an economic system, lost revenue is lost revenue whether it comes from subscriber cancellations or elsewhere.
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