Posts Tagged ‘rates’

I Rates

Filed under: Internet

I really hope that broadband providers do not completely embrace the pay as you go idea for internet bandwidth usage. In the states it seems to be gaining traction, and in Europe I am not entirely sure what the current status is, they may already be on that sort of sliding usage rate scale. The basic idea behind it is that for those who play online games or those who download a lot of things, they would be charged at a higher rate do to their usage of the bandwidth. It really doesn’t make much sense to me, the only thing it really has going for it is the greed factor, and that only works if you are one of those who would benefit financially by that type of rate change. In other words, those who work for a broadband company could see benefit, of course it probably would only be the ones who ran things, not those who actually did things. If they did that would it be the same for the home user and their ISP? What about business broadband providers, how would businesses deal with that kind of bill increase, especially in these times? One would hope, that just like the current credit card issues, that people would have an alternate choice for their service.

If one company decides to run with this type of rate structure then the company that didn’t would have many converts. I know that if I had the choice of a company who charges on usage and one who charges the regular way, I would boycott, spit at and campaign against the company that tried to charge by usage. A 2mb leased line provider would be nice for some, but not if their where other charges involved depending upon usage. I wonder how that would affect those who provided hosting service.

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Permalink Comments (0) blog Jul 16, 2009

Business and connection

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Finally, my business is up and running, in the starting stages. I’ve still got a few things to iron out but most of it is ready to go. I need a very good internet connection for business so that is one of the things I am still thinking about. I may have mentioned it before, who knows. Things kind of all get jumbled together after a certain age or certain number of long nights. Depending where you are there are more than a couple of broadband companies to choose from. It seems to be more of a pain than I thought it would be. Trying to figure out what means what and whether I need leased line providers or some other thing I have yet to hear of. There seems to be a lot of stuff to learn, if you want to make and educated decision and not just go off of what the salesperson is telling you. My first thought there, is that it could be a big mistake to trust a salesperson. I am sure most are perfectly honest, but their job is to sell you something. If they need repeat customers you are probably good.

It can be difficult to choose amongst the available companies, of course, depending on the business SDSL availability you might find your choice to be an easy one. Otherwise I am trying to just find out as much information about each company as I can. Basically, just Googling. Checking for reviews of each company and of course the all important price factor. Although, to be honest, I find that while price is certainly a factor, quality comes first. Quality of service, which includes stability of the line is truly essential for a business. I think many regular users probably figure it is really important for home use too.

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Permalink Comments (0) blog Jul 13, 2009