On 6/12/06, Man-wai CHANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same as "rent"?
Not necessarily. Rent often involved contractual lease terms. "Pay as you go" may be anything from a long-term contract to a one-time payment for services. The term is used to describe a lot of different situations. US telephone systems (landlines) have you pay long-distance charges by the minute of use, billed later. This is "pay as you go." Cellphones, in contrast, have you pay a fixed fee for zero usage up to a fixed amount, and then "pay as you go" above that. Other cellphones work only off pre-paid minutes, also claiming to be "pay as you go," though I'd argue it's more like "pay before you go." "Pay as you go" is also used to describe internet metering where actual bandwidth is charged vice a fixed-fee. Many households would pay less, while heavy users would pay a vast amount more. Some argue this is more "fair," a debatable concept. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
