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Re: flat vs non-flat charging
- From: Kent W. England
- Date: Fri May 29 16:53:02 1998
Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com> wrote:
>I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. ...
>Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP
>services is just not right.
>
I agree that using the regulated telephone network for Internet pricing
doesn't make sense, but there is a difference developing on the Net between
locally cached data and data that has to be fetched from a distance. I would
not be surprised to find differential pricing being used to incent browsers
to re-use locally cached data whenever possible.
--Kent
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