mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
Quick question from the 1st post:
If ISP's get a rebate for outgoing data, and charged for incoming data, why not increase upload speeds, and modify plans to include a customer rebate for outgoing data as well
Virgin Mobile had something like that where you get paid to receive calls from non Tata numbers
Maybe something of the sort: Billed Data= Downloaded Data - Uploaded Data/2 or something like that
In some cases it's a matter of technology (ADSL maximum upload speeds are significantly less than the download speeds, which matters mostly because most of the country runs on ADSL networks), in others it's a matter of the difficulty of billing that - this "rebate" only counts for NIXI traffic, while the traffic which goes over the international pipes - which is a much larger percentage of the total - doesn't incur the "rebate".
Besides, even at the future rate of Rs10/GB, even if the incomingutgoing ratio is 2:1, the price per GB is still significantly above that of the international bandwidth anyway, so rewarding customers for an increase in their upload traffic doesn't really have any tangible benefit for anybody and may also lead to an increase of either malicious, "illegal" p2p, or other traffic which may violate the T&C set by the ISP (such as running webservers).
The reason Virgin could get away with this is because of their direct parity in pricing from Tata traffic - Virgin's termination fees were higher than Tata's, and since they could easily tell that the traffic is coming from Tata's network because it would come in over a single link, they could give that reward. Unfortunately, it's not so easy with the Internet due to the inherent nature of it being a giant mesh.
If ISP's get a rebate for outgoing data, and charged for incoming data, why not increase upload speeds, and modify plans to include a customer rebate for outgoing data as well
Virgin Mobile had something like that where you get paid to receive calls from non Tata numbers
Maybe something of the sort: Billed Data= Downloaded Data - Uploaded Data/2 or something like that
In some cases it's a matter of technology (ADSL maximum upload speeds are significantly less than the download speeds, which matters mostly because most of the country runs on ADSL networks), in others it's a matter of the difficulty of billing that - this "rebate" only counts for NIXI traffic, while the traffic which goes over the international pipes - which is a much larger percentage of the total - doesn't incur the "rebate".
Besides, even at the future rate of Rs10/GB, even if the incomingutgoing ratio is 2:1, the price per GB is still significantly above that of the international bandwidth anyway, so rewarding customers for an increase in their upload traffic doesn't really have any tangible benefit for anybody and may also lead to an increase of either malicious, "illegal" p2p, or other traffic which may violate the T&C set by the ISP (such as running webservers).
The reason Virgin could get away with this is because of their direct parity in pricing from Tata traffic - Virgin's termination fees were higher than Tata's, and since they could easily tell that the traffic is coming from Tata's network because it would come in over a single link, they could give that reward. Unfortunately, it's not so easy with the Internet due to the inherent nature of it being a giant mesh.