Bux, I have all-I-can-eat on ADSL with puter always on. Actually, I have a limit, but can't remember what it is. If I just leave video running I'll be paying, but haven't had to so far. My limit is brainspace and bandwidth, of which I find I don't have very much. Maybe Dr J has figured that WWeb can be handled on that basis. Nearly always, I'm not sending or receiving data, just sitting here clicking on the keyboard or trying to soak stuff into my head which is already on the screen.
But I'm inclined to agree with you that it would be better to charge by the bit transmitted or received. With the bit priced according to how busy Babe the base station is. If nearing capacity, the Cat's eyes would show $8 $8 per kilobyte. Then when quiet, the cat would go away and the rats would play.
I too keep multiple browsers and functions going. Having a lot of memory [10 time RAM what I thought in 1990 would be enough hard disk space to see me out - I'd bought a 40 megabyte hard disk puter in an act of sheer wild abandon]. Now my hard disk is measured in the 10s of gigabytes and RAM is about 300 or something megabytes and the ASIC goes fast and the twisted pair zooms information through in a hurry. The puter this year cost the same as that in 1990. This is The New Paradigm in action.
Maybe the cost of HDR really is so low that Kyros, you and I are living in the past - the 1990 equivalent of my puter. Dr J probably has a reasonable idea.
14.4kbps is simply absurd for WWeb. Korea Freetel will demonstrate customer demand. It's amazing that marketers are so dozey that they think data is a dog. Then again, having been in the midst of marketers, it doesn't surprise me. They want customers to tell them what they want! They think they can do market research to figure out what to do - yes, it helps, but understanding customers is more important than asking them what they want. They don't know. They learn what they want once they see it going somewhere and use the time-honored monkey see, monkey do approach.
They'll buy billions of tons of WWeb and it'll be FAST.
Mqurice
PS: WWeb Marketing 101 WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY THE RATS WILL PLAY |
