Decius wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
]
] ] I'm not a big fan of metered based data services. I think
] it's
] ] not the way to go. But it'll have to be purely from an
] ] economic standpoint. People who utilize the service more
] ] should pay more.
]
] People are willing to pay more in sum not to have the meter
] running. There is a really good paper on this that this guy at
] bellcore put together, but I can't find it right now. It was
] from before the days when I used MemeStreams.

There are a million research papers into this. I know that I've read at least a dozen. The bottom line is that every utility in existance today is metered. Internet access will be (is?) a utility, and will follow suit. I don't think people will have a choice as to whether they can pay more for unmetered access. It's not going to work that way when the providers eventually make the switch. I don't like it. I don't know anyone who likes it. But it's going to happen.

The only x factor that I can think of might be the overcapacity of fiber in the ground. That could definitely delay things for quite some time. But I predict that we'll likely have a killer app that will require lighting all that crap up inside of 10 years. So who knows.

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