[AusNOG] Death of the Unlimited Plan? [was] "Sewer broadband provider dumped" - Brisbane fibre plan scrapped

[Bevan Slattery]

Mark,

> I don't think that is byte charging. Byte charging occurs
> when e.g. they give you 12Mbps and then tell you that you can't fill it
> 24 x 7 with bytes (in case you want to), and that they'll also be
> counting and billing for the bytes transferred. Are NBNco doing that?
> i.e. is their monthly bill going to be something like

I think it is.  If you buy a ULL pair, you get full access to the spectrum/bandwidth available to the DSLAM port.  No CVC/AGVC/Byte (traffic variable charging) on the tail.  You can plug that straight into your backhaul (whatever you decide to use).  Today in a DSLAM environment  [Tail/ULL]+Backhaul

The NBN is [Tail+CVC/Byte] + Backhaul

It's like saying that buying bandwidth (IP transit) at $100/Mb/s/month isn't byte charging, but paying $0.01/MB downloaded is.  At the end of the day there is a direct correlation with bandwidth consumption and cost.

Cheers

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