[brlug-general] I'm not against tiered pricing for high-bandwidth users..

[Karthik Poobalasubramanian]

I think we can officially change definition of bandwidth since it means data consumption rather than throughput. 
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On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Tim Fournet wrote:

> I thought all users had the same amount of bandwidth, depending on network conditions and environment?
> 
> Or do you mean high throughput users?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> I know I'll catch a lot of flack for this, but, honestly, I'm not against tiered pricing from service providers like AT&T for high-bandwidth users:
> 
>  
> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/02/att_says_tiered_data_pricing_inevitable_not_rushing_towards_4g.html
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> Why should users that use little bandwidth subsidize high-bandwidth users?
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