RE: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing

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Let's see:

You accect per piece pricing and identify that it is existing practice.

Sounds like you object to the units? Should the units be in terms of T-1s
(as you accept as exiting practice), DS-0 (probably the prominent per piece
model in use today) or what?

So is your complaint that that units might not be in terms of T-1s? Or is
it that the units are soft/virtual instead of hard as defined by the Telco
physical hierarchy?

If Sidgemore's experience matches others in the ISP business I suspect he is
considering/planning such service plans because several of his important
customers are asking for it. And I am sure he has the ability/mechanisms to
retain those customers who demand flat/predictable billing by offering that
as an option ...

chaeers,

peter

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Well, we'll see. The problem is suits who don't understand that
billing by the byte, rather than by the router port, usually has higher
costs than it does revenue enhancement. If I assert that I'm trying to
reduce customer's billings, then, as a CEO of a publicly held company,
I'd better have something up my sleeve that will actually enhance
revenue, or I'll be out of a job, real quick.

ObOps: any more news on the Florida Backhoe Incident?

Cheers,
-- jra