RE: Regional differences in P2P
I don't know of any capped service over here, nobody dares take the first step.
Not 10 Mbps but: Telenor, the largest Norwegian service provider, capped their ADSL customers at a ridiculously low 1 Gbyte/month for a while. Presumably they lost sufficient business to other (uncapped) providers that they noticed - the cap has now been removed. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
Not 10 Mbps but: Telenor, the largest Norwegian service provider, capped their ADSL customers at a ridiculously low 1 Gbyte/month for a while. Presumably they lost sufficient business to other (uncapped) providers that they noticed - the cap has now been removed.
What did they do when customer went over the limit? That is the big issue, households want to control their spending and automatically charging them more if they do more, is not very popular. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: | On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: | | |>Not 10 Mbps but: Telenor, the largest Norwegian service provider, |>capped their ADSL customers at a ridiculously low 1 Gbyte/month for a |>while. Presumably they lost sufficient business to other (uncapped) |>providers that they noticed - the cap has now been removed. | | | What did they do when customer went over the limit? | | That is the big issue, households want to control their spending and | automatically charging them more if they do more, is not very popular. | Hi Here in São Paulo state, Brazil, telefonica (yeah, the same spanish one) caps ADSL too , they have the 128kbit dsl capped at 500MB, 300kbit capped at 3000MB, 450kbps capped at 10500MB and 600kbps capped at 20000MB. no uncapped service available (except for old contracts), and they charge about US$ 0.03 (R$ 0.10) for each megabyte above the quota. Hopefully, their right to charge this is suspended by law, for now :) They also have a service where you pay per-hour (about US$ 0.65/ hour) for 1mbit/128 service, and skipping the quota (whatever you transfer while paying for this does not count on the quota) Unfortunately, there is a monopoly in DSL service :( Cya Evaldo Gardenali -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA99/C5121Y+8pAbIRAtGyAJ9LqmIGJhDARilQGalnbE9glYJoQgCfd66J obE/Y38t8rz3m23fmnpFo0s= =GaCJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Evaldo Gardenali wrote:
Here in São Paulo state, Brazil, telefonica (yeah, the same spanish one) caps ADSL too , they have the 128kbit dsl capped at 500MB, 300kbit capped at 3000MB, 450kbps capped at 10500MB and 600kbps capped at 20000MB. no uncapped service available (except for old contracts), and they charge about US$ 0.03 (R$ 0.10) for each megabyte above the quota.
Dishnet DSL (www.ddsl.net) in India - which is now borged by Tata Indicom (which borged VSNL when it was privatized) - 512K DSL capped at 1 GB a month costs around $70 / mo. Something like 8 cents per MB extra Yes I know it sucks, as does their service (ravening backhoe took out a bunch of cable so service to most of southern Madras was cut off for almost 12 hours today - but it's pretty bad when it is up anyway). srs
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