On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
This is the key point. People keep wittering on about a flat rate, and seem to be ignoring the outcomes of such - at worst, bankruptcy for your ISP, and at best, significant restrictions on what you can do with that bandwidth.
I think the idea is not free bandwidth, but affordable and predictable charging. I pay $199 plus $20 a month for my Jetstream connection. Telecom gets the $199 and TelstraSaturnParadiseClear twenty bucks, although it is the latter that provides the majority of bandwidth I use. That's only for 1.5GB a month. If that doesn't tell you the JCM is a rip-off and unfair to ISPs, I don't know what will.
I'd like to pay lower bandwidth charges. I'd like it if petrol were free, too.
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