Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

[Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc () internode com au>]

> If the cheap flatrate broadband were to go away and be replaced by a 
> metered one, we as an industry need to figure out how to do billing in 
> a customer-friendly manner. We do not have much experience with this 
> in many markets.
Us Aussies have PLENTY of experience and are willing to travel and 
consult at quite reasonable rates - especially to Europe :-)

User pays is the reality here in Australia primarily because the cost of 
getting one gigabyte of data to a customers house is at least AU$1GB 
(excluding the actual cost of running your own network or the wholesale 
cost of a DSL port or helpdesk etc).   

It does also mean that we can afford to build networks and local loops 
with no congestion and no slow down during peak periods.   Customers 
here expect high performance all the time and we (at least) try and 
deliver it to them.

MMC

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