Verizon CTO Argues For Metered Pricing

CNet is reporting on a press conference and speech given by Verizon's CTO, Dick Lynch, at the FTTH Conference & Expo in Houston, in which he advocated for metered broadband pricing. "Lynch said during that press conference according to reports that in the future broadband service will likely be sold in packages based on how much bandwidth a person consumes. This metered approach is similar to how the wireless industry has operated. ... 'We're going to have to consider pricing structures that allow us to sell packages of bytes, and at the end of the day the concept of a flat-rate infinitely expandable service is unachievable,' GigaOm quoted him as saying. ... Lynch didn't say that Verizon had metered broadband plans in the works today. And he was quick to point out that the company is not shifting its pricing, But he did say that he hoped the that the Federal Communication Commission's plans to make Net neutrality principles formal regulation would not hurt broadband providers' ability to offer such premium bandwidth offerings, Telephony Online reported."

Pay Per Byte

[kikusz]

That's why ISPs offer different plans... Slower with limits.... high-speed with limits and unlimited with basically double-price of slower and they still wanna make more... In the end they wanna turn everyone into cash-cows... Whats the point of having websites like youtube and what not if one can't even use it afraid of having to pay more?

Re:Horrible idea...

[snookums]

You are actually consuming those services, where as data is not really consumed, it is not gone/used up when you are done, there is still a virtually unlimited amount (as long at there is electricity there can be data).

No. The capacity of the network at any given time is finite. You are using a fraction of that available bandwith for some period of time.

Bandwidth x Time = Bytes Transferred.

iPod storage ads

[anomaly]

iPod storage is advertised in terms of "song" and "movie" because normals don't know (or care) about bytes!

Apple sold their "inferior" device to zillions of people who don't care about how it's technically "less good" than other options, because they value things other than specifications - ease of use, style, etc. Those are valid selection criteria, even if *you* don't value them, obviously the market *does.*

Consumers on the whole will never understand nor care about "data". They will care about music and movies and other entertainment.

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