Engineer, They have just such a highway just south of Los Angeles! < I could just have a little meter on my car which allowed me to pay $50 a mile and I could just turn up my speed to 160 mph? then all the people would have to get off the highway while I sped along using up the whole thing.
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Going from San Diego, you get near Los Angeles where there is a toll road option which swings off to Long Beach. So I thought it looked like fun and a change. Nearly everyone else continued up the main, old, free, freeway. It was eerie, being the only car on a monster road. Well, there were a couple of others. It was fun and the car just couldn't help but get a bit silly and go way too fast for a little while until it realized this was still a speed limit road although presumably privately owned.
During rush hour, I guess it would be busy as people avoid the queues by getting on it and to heck with the small charge. It was such a good quality road too. Smooth, quiet, low tyre resistance for less fuel consumption wear and tear and other aggro. Dark surface, so no glare. Safe, since little traffic. Fast, so time saved. Pleasant with a nice view.
Yes, that's what we want for CDMA.
You are quite right that I have no idea where 100ms delay comes from. Nor 10 minutes delay which I got yesterday. I think you mean that the system has to keep that small delay so that totals carried can be maximized and I can see that, but other than that delay, priority could be heavily smoothed by price plans and customers choosing to wait a bit. Without that 100ms delay, the system would be flat out, then empty, 10 times per second. Yes?
When you dialed in priority for users who had important work to do, everyone selected priority because it didn't cost them anything. I've experienced the same thing in the paperwork world where people mark everything URGENT AND TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. MAKE IT CONFIDENTIAL TOO!! It might be something to do with a visit from a customer in a month or so. It's verbal inflation. Nowadays a disaster is if somebody dies in a car crash. A catastrophe is if the people in the other car also die.
If we bill people for their urgency, and sting them hard, they'll soon be a bit more circumspect about what is urgent and what is not.
There has to be some way of stopping overload. Leaving people disconnected is NOT a way to keep customers happy.
With 4 pricing systems, all could be happy and have no system crashes.
The most expensive is ALWAYS ON AND ALL DATA GOES WITHIN 100ms and VOICE WITHIN 20ms.
Other pricing plans would say "CURRENT PRICE IS $100 per megabit - suggest you try again in 5 minutes" [or 1 minute or 1 hour with an estimate for that time given - or even a fixed quote for later delivery].
There are lots of ways of shifting people from NOW to SOON or MAYBE TONIGHT. Price is the best way. Then they have choice. People love choice. Competition gives them choice.
That new freeway where you pay is really nice. You should try it!
Mqurice
PS: Don't you think 30c per megabyte is expensive? I'd have thought they could do data on CDMA much cheaper than that. Even if it's mobile. Data won't sell a LOT if it's that expensive. I think that was the figure quoted. |
