Comments on: Bell Canada Shapes Up Wholesale ISPs

By: Ben Lucier

Ben Lucier — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:25:40 +0000

That’s always been my theory Coridon. It works with hydro, water and gas utilities and it puts the responsibility on the people actually creating the bottlenecks.

That system is not without its challenges too though: What is the fair price the ILECs should charge for over-utilization, how would that flow-through to the wholesalers and will people be able to afford the overage charges?

This is what’s happening in the cellphone world and cable Internet – Rogers and Bell send bills to “abuses” totaling thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars.

By: Coridon Henshaw

Coridon Henshaw — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:27:14 +0000

Pass the true costs of today’s residential usage patterns to end users–for instance by bringing 95th percentile billing down to the residential level–and the laws of economics will traffic patterns to ISP capacity in short order. End of problem. No traffic discrimination required.

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