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A Layman's Guide To Bandwidth Pricing
narramissic links to IT World's A Layman's Guide to Bandwidth Pricing, writing "Time Warner Cable has, for now, abandoned the tiered pricing trials that raised the ire of Congressman Eric Massa, among others. And, as some nice data points in a New York Times article reveal, it's good for us that they did. For instance, Comcast says it costs them $6.85 per home to double the internet capacity of a neighborhood. But the bit of the Times article that we should commit to memory is this: 'If all Time Warner customers decided one day not to check their e-mail or download a single movie, the company's costs would be no different than on a day when every customer was glued to the screen watching one YouTube video after another.'"
'If all Time Warner customers decided one day not to check their e-mail or download a single movie, the company's costs would be no different than on a day when every customer was glued to the screen watching one YouTube video after another.'
Wait! Are you trying to say that the cost of transmitting a bunch of zeros is no different than transmitting a mix of zeros and ones?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Internet is flat-rate, and should be, IMHO because it represents nothing real
Reminds me of the joke that the power company, with it's alternating current, is taking advantage of us by charging for the same electrons over and over.
Someone please double my internet bandwidth!
"I'm like a woman with two abusive wives! I hate this shit!"
Better?