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Currently IMO, the best world would be to allow the ISPs to charge Netflix properly for the total cost of providing it How is that better than charging custome
by orangecat 16y ago
Currently IMO, the best world would be to allow the ISPs to charge Netflix properly for the total cost of providing it
How is that better than charging customers directly for the bandwidth they use? The problem with the recent Canada fiasco wasn't (IMO) the concept of metered billing itself, but trying to charge hundreds of times the actual cost.
- abrenzel 16y agoIt may be more of an aesthetic preference, but the pricing signal makes more sense to me on a per-service basis than it does on a tiered internet service basis. Tiered bandwidth plans are inexact - should I buy the 250 MB plan or the 5 GB - and require a lot of thought as to what you will actually use. If the charge is per-service, you know exactly what you're buying with each additional service you consume. That's my thinking anyway.
- orangecat 16y agoTiered bandwidth plans are inexact - should I buy the 250 MB plan or the 5 GB That's still more accurate than charging you a Netflix access fee whether you download one movie or 20. And charging per-service opens the door to all sorts of anti-competitive agreements. and require a lot of thought as to what you will actually use. That seems like a feature. The alleged problem isn't "customers accessing netflix.com", it's "customers using lots of data". If you want to use pricing signals to correct that, then charge directly for the scarce resource.