----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@comcast.net>
To: <isp-bandwidth@isp-bandwidth.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed
If you're costs are going up you're shopping it the wrong way.
If anything it's seemed like a pretty steady decline in pricing and at
higher service levels and better performing networks than I'd have
expected. Maybe though everything relates back to 1995 pricing and it all
seems dirt cheap.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <ispplanetbandwidth@ics-il.net>
To: <isp-bandwidth@isp-bandwidth.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed
I increased my broadband rates as well. They didn't go up 30%, but with
some adjustments and policy, I predict we may get 25% more revenue.
----- Original Message -----
From: "KingBloom" <lists@kingbloom.com>
To: <isp-bandwidth@isp-bandwidth.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [isp-bandwidth] Om Malik supports throttling, gets flamed
On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
That's a fair process to all, but confusing to the customer.
What's confusing about it? This is the way every other UTILITY is
billed, from sewer/water, gas, electric, etc... You pay a flat rate for
the privilege of having the service, call it a "minimum use charge",
then you pay X for usage.
Our industry really needs to move to this type of model if we want to
continue to make a profit. Again, every other utility is charged with
a flat rate for having the service, then X for anything above that.
Even cable/satellite. You pay one price for the service, then extra
for additional services. You pay whether you watch it or not, and you
pay MORE for EXTRA TV's... We should be charging a fee for each
computer in use as well.
Someone needs to start the ball rolling in this direction...
Back to the buffet, when it comes to internet you buy one plate and the
whole family eats. We should be charging per plate like everyone else.
ATM, we are raising our broadband rates 30% and calling it a fuel
surcharge. Our costs have gone up yet our prices in the industry keep
going down. Again, this does not happen with other utilities. My 800
# services have risen 60% for the minimum charge under the guise of a
fuel surcharge.
We should all be doing the same.
Regards,
Bob Costas
PR Director KingBloom.Com
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