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To: Crossy who wrote (31403)	9/19/2009 12:28:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

I have been using cyberspace since the days of Compuserve and have used various types and various plans and have invested in various schemes. <Flat-fee Internet is the only way to go. Comeptitive providers learnt this lesson a long time ago... > There are indeed various ideas and ways of selling cyberspace, including flat fee per month, but to say that Flat Fee Internet is the only way to go is not what I think. In some situations that makes sense and it might be a sensible component of most networks. But there are better ways of doing things in most situations. "Free" and "Flat Fee" are horrible unless there really is a big surplus. When it just means sitting in a 2 hour traffic jam to travel 1 kilometre, I'd rather just get out and walk and pay $1 t do so. "Very Cheap Flat Fee and we kick you off if it gets busy" would be a reasonable plan for part of a network's capacity. Then people who have low priority data but lots of it could make use of otherwise quiet times on a network. Those willing to pay what the market will bear would have their packets traveling quickly all the time. Zenbu doesn't have flat fee per month or hour or day, but instead charges 10c per megabyte [or less if the zone operator wants to charge less or give it away - they keep all their revenue and Zenbu just manages the vouchers they issue]. Zenbu is very very competitive. Most people love it [subscribers and zone operators]. A few who want big downloads don't - that's good because zone operators don't want those big users blocking their internet and blowing their data caps. I am a fan of flat fee for Globalstar = in fact not even charge a fee, just sell devices and let people go until the constellation or gateway is getting too busy, then start charging, increasing the price until the system is happily busy with everyone able to get through at any time. Mqurice