[LINK] Usage Based Billing

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 31/03/11 8:53 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> This is an interesting topic.
>
> With the addition of PPC-1 last year Australia now has, (if 8 million
> homes all active simultaneously),
> P/HH* 210 kbps sustained download capacity.
>
> With the Unity cable now terminated, that takes the total to over
> 1,355.11 kbps. (err that's YouTube in full HD for 70% of the country...
> Or the ABC delivered at 720P to every Australian.
> LEGEND..........ary!)
>
> There is no longer any valid technical reason why Australia should have
> enforced monthly Caps.
1) There is capacity on those cables, but the ISP still has to buy that 
capacity on a per-Mbps basis. And Australia remains more expensive 
per-Mbps than other places.

2) Whether they buy it in Australia or the US, the Australian ISP has to 
add the cost of Internet transit. So: when Internode (which buys its own 
direct capacity on submarine cables) gets to a landing point in America, 
it then needs to pay per-GB costs for downloads.

Not technical reasons, perhaps, but definitely economic reasons.

RC
> I think it's about time we let our politicians know about this "glitch"
> in the design of the NBN.
> Especially if the NBN will be delivering retail product to some
> Australian customers. (yeah yeah - rural only.... ).
>
> So now there are only three questions.
>
> Which Company offered home users 1Gb per sec speeds? [1]
> Who owns Unity AND;
> How are they going to deliver it? A couple of choices would be:
>
> Last mile Spectrum... (see ref [1] for the para about Google paying 4
> Bill for Wireless spectrum in the Us just to break the wireless
> monopoly)
>
> That copper is starting to look mighty important...
>
> And speaking of trial communities... Since Maralinga, hasn't Australia
> pretty much been the trial community for most of these things ?
>
> However in this case:
> Quote/
> [From:http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=36639&email
> =html]
>
> Kansas City beats off 1,100 cities to host new 'Google Fiber' network
>
> Kansas City has been declared the winner of Google's 'Google Fiber'
> contest, and the internet giant will now roll out a trial fibre-optic
> network in the city, offering transmission speeds of up to 100Mbps.
> Google first announced the project over a year ago, and received
> applications from almost 1,100 cities that were interested in hosting
> the network. Google's vice president of Access Services, Milo Medin,
> wrote on Google's official blog: 'In selecting a city, our goal was to
> find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the
> community and develop relationships with local government and community
> organizations. We've found this in Kansas City. We'll be working closely
> with local organisations including the Kauffman Foundation, KCNext and
> the University of Kansas Medical Centre to help develop the gigabit
> applications of the future. Pending approval from the city's Board of
> Commissioners, we plan to offer service beginning in 2012. We will also
> be looking closely at ways to bring ultra high-speed internet to other
> cities across the country'.
> /Quote
>
> And of course, once we are all getting P2P delivered content to all of
> our devices for free what will happen to Telstra, Optus and all that
> useless broadcast spectrum.
>
> [1]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/technology/companies/11google.html?_r=
> 1&ref=business
>
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