On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:05:21PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
At 09:40 PM 7/14/2014, John Curran wrote:
Myself, I'd call such fees to be uniform,
Ah, but they are not. Smaller providers pay more per IP address than larger ones. And a much larger share of their revenues as the base fee for being "in the club" to start with.
While the "share of revenue" argument is bogus (as John's cup-of-coffee analogy made clear), you do have a point with the cost-per-IP-address argument: Annual Fee Max CIDR $/IP $500 /22 0.49 $1000 /20 0.24 $2000 /18 0.12 $4000 /16 0.06 $8000 /14 0.03 $16000 /12 0.02 $32000 > /12 Mastercard! Then again, the vast majority of businesses have discounts for volume purchases. I note that even LARIAT does this. You charge $60 for 1000Kbps, but $80 for 1500Kbps. Shouldn't that be $90 for 1500Kbps, to ensure everyone pays the same price per Kbps?
It would be nice if what I do was also understood and valued by the Internet community at large.
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