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Sure. Then ISPs need to start listing what they can actually fulfill, under load, for all customers in a given area at any given time.
by anonymousab 12y ago
Sure. Then ISPs need to start listing what they can actually fulfill, under load, for all customers in a given area at any given time.
- saurik 12y agoIf they billed by the byte instead of by some nebulous concept of connectivity then it wouldn't matter what they "can actually fulfill, under load": if they weren't able to get you all the bytes you wanted, you would be paying them less, and they would make less money. The maximum amount of money they could make from their infrastructure per hour would then be exactly their per byte cost times the number of bytes they could move per hour, leading to obvious incentives to increase their capacity.