15 Jun
2001
15 Jun
'01
7:26 p.m.
David Schwartz wrote:
John Olp wrote:
The argument that multicast should be billed based on the number of receivers is flawed. Those receivers are already being billed based on the bandwidth they use regardless of source.
They are billed by their ISP for the traffic they receive. This doesn't cover the cost of sending the data to them on the sourcing ISP. This is why you pay for both traffic you send and for traffic you receive. Both cost your provider money to do for you.
Nice bit of double-billing. One packet traverses the network, and two people pay for it. -- David