On 14 May 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> I don't buy this argument. They can limit the traffic by contract, and
> offer to pay more for extras, just as Haim said.
Paying for extra is divided into two counts:
1). access
2). used bandwidth
If they charged you for the fact you made them upgrade their link, you
wouldn't be able to pay. Israeli customers except near US prices, for way
more investment on the side of the ISP. Personally, I get the feeling you
don't really know this aspect too well....
> How can it hurt the provider economically if the bill the customer?
As I said, they charge you $XX for the bandwidth, and the price has to be
reasonable, so they try to break-down the cost of the link/access into
something that will look ok to you. That is why they lose money.
> Bad example - water in Israel is a scarce unrecoverable resource - not
> merely expensive.
Again, you're looking at the problem in a narrow minded way. Water is not
unrecoverable, you can "lehatpil" sea water, and have as much water as you
need, it's just more expensive.
Try to use a broader scope when looking at this problem.
--Ariel
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