If my supplier is not making money on me then I fully expect to get cut off.
I want my supplier to stop providing service to customers that cause them to lose money. If they don't, and they have too many "dog accounts" they will go out of business and that doesn't help me.
Hmm, let's see, if I owned and ISP, oh wait, I do!
I would want to sell service to as many users that don't use as possible but in the beginning I would have to accept any customer that comes my way.
After I get to the point of having enough customers online that losing a few hundered (or more) wouldn't make a difference, I would dump my biggest users of my service.
Most ISPs pay depending on how my bandwidth is actually used. Let's say you have three customers, two of them check email and surf a bit. Let's say the third user is a P2P freak and goes through 200 gigs each month. That third user may cost you enough to wipe out all profits from all three. You dump the third user and you revenue goes down but your profitability goes up.
95% of my broadband customers use less than 1 gig/month. 99% use less than 10 gigs per month. 1% use more.
Guess which ones will be sent to my competition when my backbone begins to reach capacity?
"The Post also did a nice big fast A1 lead story [washingtonpost.com] on its own poll finding that the majority of Americans don't support gay unions."
I don't really have a problem with gay unions but it does get on my nerves when they threaten to strike if they don't get to listen to Barbara Streisand in their office.
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My broadband come into my home wirelessly. There are no phone or cable (TV) lines live at my house.
No, the ISP will just drop the customer and move on. Read a TOS or AUP and you'll find you can get dropped for many, many (and no) reasons.
Submit too many claims and you WILL be dropped from your insurance.
If my supplier is not making money on me then I fully expect to get cut off.
I want my supplier to stop providing service to customers that cause them to lose money. If they don't, and they have too many "dog accounts" they will go out of business and that doesn't help me.
I owe it to my customers to stay in business.
OMFG what the hell was that!!!! I think I'm going to be sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmm, let's see, if I owned and ISP, oh wait, I do!
I would want to sell service to as many users that don't use as possible but in the beginning I would have to accept any customer that comes my way.
After I get to the point of having enough customers online that losing a few hundered (or more) wouldn't make a difference, I would dump my biggest users of my service.
Most ISPs pay depending on how my bandwidth is actually used. Let's say you have three customers, two of them check email and surf a bit. Let's say the third user is a P2P freak and goes through 200 gigs each month. That third user may cost you enough to wipe out all profits from all three. You dump the third user and you revenue goes down but your profitability goes up.
95% of my broadband customers use less than 1 gig/month. 99% use less than 10 gigs per month. 1% use more.
Guess which ones will be sent to my competition when my backbone begins to reach capacity?
After so many viri's that fake return to headers it's stupid to continue responding to them. No I didn't read the article...
"The Post also did a nice big fast A1 lead story [washingtonpost.com] on its own poll finding that the majority of Americans don't support gay unions." I don't really have a problem with gay unions but it does get on my nerves when they threaten to strike if they don't get to listen to Barbara Streisand in their office.
I need to do my wireless calculation but I'm out in this field and have no signal for my cell phone!
Smash it to bits and drop them in a dozen dumpsters (or rivers/ocean/etc.)