Time Warner testing usage-based billing

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by figment1986

speed is the best thing to charge for... but not bandwidth where they make enough money off of charges for everything else...

You are making the assumption that the price point starts where it is now and goes up from there. What about the possible model that current pricing is the base and then lower bandwidth usage pays less and higher pays more?

Granted, one would probably have the change to save less (percentage wise) than the potential increase, but the model remains.

I am not so sure that introducing a bandwidth usage cost factor into pricing is not a fair variable. Using more bandwidth increases the usage factor; why shouldn't a company be compensated for same?

One way to look at it is this: an individual is paid for their time (assuming an hourly wage). Do you think that everyone should be paid the same if they all put through the same amount of work? I know that productivity based pay is (sadly) not used (I am not sure on the legality of it), but don't we (generally speaking) pay more for an employee who is more experienced (and have I exceeded the maximum allowable number of parenthetical references in a sentence?).