Re: flat vs non-flat charging

Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com> wrote:

I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. ... Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP services is just not right.

I agree that using the regulated telephone network for Internet pricing doesn't make sense, but there is a difference developing on the Net between locally cached data and data that has to be fetched from a distance. I would not be surprised to find differential pricing being used to incent browsers to re-use locally cached data whenever possible. --Kent