Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?

[Jonathan M. Slivko]

Hello Fellow NANOG'ers,

I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable? The 
company that I work for developed a piece of technology which, through 
rate-limit statements, allow customers to buy/sell bandwidth "on 
demand". Now, I was thinking: "Why can't we take this technology that 
we've tested successfully in a colo environment and adapt it a little 
bit for personal/buisness-class ISP's to allow them to bill for the 
bandwidth that a customer uses, and only that with the exception of a 
base monthly fee (to cover the DSL/T1 loop, e-mail services, support, 
etc.) of a few dollars.

Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for 
what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people who 
don't neccessarily need to get on the Internet at high-speed, get on 
high-speed which will not only increase revenue for the ISP's, but also 
for the customer who can now use DSL/T1 access in a much more effective way.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

-- Jonathan

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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
help@invisiblehand.net
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