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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (17893)	12/5/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

There will of course be increases in efficiencies but there are limits to how far coding efficiencies can take you. Note even the rate of change of the example you cite. Doubling in a year is not going to do it and there is only so far that compression can go, not to mention the time for deployment and adoption of such technologies. With the ten fold increases Sidgemore was citing, you are not solving the problem with these technologies, so much as not falling behind as quickly. I suspect that for current levels of use the flat rate will continue to apply. These guys will try to draw a line at extracting more revenue through metered service plans, though I think it will just evolve into something that looks like higher flat rates, for higher levels of service. The Genie is out of the bottle on this one and try as they might I think they won't get it back in.