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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10338)	6/4/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Respond to of 29970

Hey Frank, This bad boy stunk up the place today...and yesterday....and the day before. When the hell is thing gonna bounce. $h!+ hoping to see 140 agian is like a pipe dream. This pup's killing me! OG

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10338)	6/4/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

<<I don't think that there will be any getting away from metering in the future, in bandwidth constrained environments, which only get more crowded with each passing hour and day. >> Frank, I think the genie is out of the bottle on this one for "consumer" markets. It flies pretty well in the "business" and "government" markets where you have armies of bean counters that love accounting cost basis measurements. However, the consumer wants a flat rate and knows only too well how the long distance bill gets out of hand quick with just a few calls. The flat rate ISP pricing is now known and accepted. I use PacBell ISP services which just retracted their maximum hourly connect times for the basic analog ISP service from 150 hours a month to "unlimited". There will not be any mass migration from this type of billing to one based on metered rates for consumers in my opinion. But, I can just see the senior management at Basking Ridge drooling over the thought of moving in the direction of metered rates. This way they can stick it to their downstream customers just like the RBOCs stuck it to them for all these years for local equal access. They know the game very well and if they see an opportunity - watch them grab it like a kid in a candy store.