Should internet service providers charge you for how many bandwidth you use?
By jeskidmore
@jeskidmore (45)
United States
April 5, 2007 6:48pm CST
I work at a local internet service provider that offers dial-up services to users, and charges the flat-rate of $9.95 per month. However, I notice that a lot of users barely use any bandwidth at all in the period of one month, while others use over 100 times as much as the normal user. Do you think that more internet service providers should charge a smaller monthly rate, and also charge for amount of bandwidth used?
5 responses
@sapphiresage (431)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Heck no! But then, I have 3.0 Mbps DSL and pay plenty for it, so I expect my usage be included.
I'm surprised dial-up even costs $9.95 anymore. Aren't there a lot of free dial-up providers out there?
@roshnichaudhary (1160)
• United States
7 Apr 07
I pay $ 19.99 per month for internet connection. It's comcast high speed internet. I don't know anything about bandwidth.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
6 Apr 07
No. That would make some people decide not to use the internet when it is necessary. In many cases, internet use is a necessity. Also dial up is supposed to be cheap. The ones who use a lot of bandwidth on dial up are giving you as message. "We want cable or dsl."
@web2samus (255)
• Uruguay
6 Apr 07
here in my country we have different "plans" forminternet access, there is is the plain who gives you full access anytime for a fixed payment, a plan who values how much time you're connecte4d and other plan who measures the data transfer. I think this modality gives the advantage of getting the best use/cost ratio for all cases.
