The normal consumer has no way to correlate what the "real" cost is as the providers keep their "costs" for bandwidth, transit, etc. proprietary secrets and always lie to the consumer and muddy the picture of what the ISP actually pays for regarding bits! Additionally, until there can be proper tools that are "certified" for measuring usage, then usage based billing will never be viable. Robert Webb On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 10:11:29 -0600 (CST) Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
My point on usage based billing isn't meant to stifle anything, but to provide equitable service to everyone at a fair price. $10/gig certainly isn't a fair price for almost any network. People pay variable rates for water, electricity, gas, food, etc., etc.
Is it necessarily a bad thing if people stop to think about what their usage costs?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com