replies inline On 11/30/2010 12:09 AM, Andrew Koch wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 22:17, William Herrin<bill@herrin.us> wrote:
So you're saying: treat it like electrical service. I have a 200 amp electrical service at my house. But I don't pay for a 200 amp service, I pay for kilowatt-hours of usage.
There are several problems transplanting that billing model to Internet service. The first you've already noticed - marketing activity has rendered it unsalable. But that's not the only problem. Not quite. Look at mobile data plans. A very few are unlimited, most are per byte.
I don't know of a single data plan that's unlimited. they all have either 5 gig or lower transfer caps. That's not unlimited no matter what the lawyers or marketers day.
Andy Koch