On 12/10/14 7:45 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Yucong Sun wrote: > >> It is not the same thing though. In my case, they just say we want >> you to >> buy our IP, if you don't and want use you own Arin allocated IP blocks >> through bgp, then we got to charge you anyway! > > Are they charging per /24 (assuming IPv4 here...), or per prefix? > > If they are charging per /24, that seems like a great way to encourage > customers to find another provider. > > If they are charging per prefix, that seems like an interesting way to > encourage customers to make sure they aggregate their BGP > advertisements as much as possible. > ISPs in my experience have a fee schedule supported by a model which allows them to recover their expenses plus a nominal profit. If the model doesn't work, in the long run that is a problem that solves itself. At the right scale I have productive leverage against the profit side of that number and also what line items the expenses are lodged against. below that I'm a retail customer and I pick from the best options available to me. > jms >
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