On Jan 18, 2008 2:53 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore &lt;<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net">patrick@ianai.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>IOW: Usage-based billing makes sense commercially, whether you are a<br>propeller-head or a bell-head.<br><br>And since Internet providers tend to be for-profit businesses, doing<br>what &quot;makes sense commercially&quot; is kinda required.
<br><br>Then again, I Am Not An Isp, so what do I know? &nbsp;If you think things<br>are out of whack, sounds like a business opportunity to me! &nbsp;You<br>should be able to take your superior knowledge and make a killing<br>implementing a proper network.
<br><br>--<br>TTFN,<br><font color="#888888">patrick<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>I&#39;ll be honest, when this thread first started the first thing I thought was &quot;I should find out how my local municipal fiber co-op is coming along with their buildout&quot;. For customers, going from unlimited to constrained is always painful (vs the opposite).
<br><br>My academic question is, where are costs killing consumer ISPs? Is it the last mile? Transit? Under-capacity peering points?<br><br>-brandon<br>