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From: davidsen@sixhub.tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Reply-To: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 22:16:48 GMT
Message-ID: <D4F9w1.FnF@sixhub.tmr.com>
References: <3f44s2$jqm@maverick.maverick.tad.eds.com> <3h4363$jqv@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> <TMB.95Feb20042733@netcom6.netcom.com> <3icall$
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In article <3icall$oaj@magma.Mines.Colorado.EDU>,
Ade Barkah <mbarkah@teton.Mines.Colorado.EDU> wrote:

| So, no, 14.4kbps `low-bandwidth' users do not subsidize
| heavy T1 users.

Sure they do, but not by paying more than their fair share. They do it
by using the net at night, when business use is lower, to provide some
revenue where two years ago there was almost none.
|
| But what if someone buys T1 service and only use it
| sparingly ? Then he is a looser, for not correctly
| determining his net requirements to begin with.

Sort of true, but net requirements are not just volume. Operating a WWW
site, or ftp server, take quite a bit of bandwidth, even if the volume
is fairly low.
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