Re: Responses to Postings

tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:19:27 +1000

Michael Kurkowski <#NOSPAM#simcard@tig.com.au> whilst wasting more of his
precious bandwith dribled
tezza@atinet.com.au mumbled

>>Monthly fees are dropping, only the rip-offs still charge for downloads.

>Unfortunately, for the ISP's, most of the wholsale providers charge by data
>used, since it's pretty useless to charge for time when they are
essentially
>connected to the internet for the month. Unfortunately for the ISP users,
the
>ISP has to pass their costs onto the user, and if say a user on an
unlimited
>account wastes bandwidth, this costs the ISP more, and if they are losing
>money, the monthly 'unlimited' fees are risen.
>There is nothing for nothing in this world.

The fact that monthly fees are dropping rather than increasing, disproves
your theory. Bandwidth is increasing all the time as more resources are
allocated.