Re: [PLUG] cultural ethics of email and spam

[zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>]

On 10/17/07, Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net> wrote:
> zuzu wrote:
> >
> > without citing artificial restrictions, _bandwidth is bandwidth_.
> > really you're paying purely for Mbps with several "nines" of
> > availability, that's it.
> >
> If bandwidth is bandwidth then Verizon should just give everyone a
> 100/1000Mbit port and charge them 95th % usage on their circuit based on
> a $/Mbit price that is based on how much they will commit to (ranging
> from $30-125/Mbit).  This is method how hosting companies pay for
> transit. If this is how it worked for the consumer it'd be like going
> back to paying per minute on the telephone and would reduce peoples time
> spent online.

you're assuming that the cost of bandwidth is fixed, when competition
usually correlates to falling prices for all commodities -- bandwidth
included.

the problem with overbooking as a business model is alot like what
airlines have floundered with -- that seats are really commodities,
but the businesses want to fool people with phony differentiations
into thinking they're not, because they don't want to compete purely
on price/performance.

or simply put, "last mile" ISPs dug their own graves with overbooking
(aka underprovisioning) (on the heels of AOL) and now are suffering
because it's unsustainable.  this is where I lose my sympathy and
those businesses should fail and better businesses would take their
place.
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