ISPs charging per device

Rik · Mar 28, 2011, 16:44:36

I can't remember when it was, but it's stuck in my mind, Ray.

Ray · Mar 28, 2011, 16:47:22

Neither can I, Rik, but I certainly remember it being talked about, I suspect by the Labour Party. $:-\$

Glenn · Mar 28, 2011, 17:01:23

I believe that it was Mr. Darling.

Rik · Mar 28, 2011, 17:13:22

As recent as that? I thought it was probably back in the 70s or 80s.

Glenn · Mar 28, 2011, 17:15:32

It may well be, but I think Darling brought it up again.

Glenn · Mar 28, 2011, 17:20:07

This is what I was thinking of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/2207108/Alistair-Darling-forced-into-retreat-over-car-tax-increases.html

Rik · Mar 28, 2011, 17:41:19

I remember that one, Glenn, but at the back of my mind I have a feeling that an earlier Chancellor started to replace VED with duty on fuel, but the latter happened whilst the former did not. Sadly, my memory is too vague for Google to help.

Technical Ben · Mar 29, 2011, 08:34:12

In 2020 we will be charged per Web Browser. Each share of Web browsers percentage in the market relates to an increase in charges. As FireFox has 40% share, it gets charged 40% more. Well, they are using 40% more bandwidth than the only just released called "Jan2020Explorer" web browser that has 1% share.
By 2022 we are getting charge per button. Each button on a device has been shown to correlate to the amount of traffic used on the device. This times the sum of the pie of the tangent of the screen aspect ratio over the size in rhino feet, gives the discount reduction rate charged in rebate to the customer.
In 2030 BT decide what you pay. You have no need to worry about what that is. To improve the "customer service" [As regulated and reclassified in the BToxford Dictionary to be "subject to change"] they no longer tell you what your bill is. Or what the charges are for our services. All BT products are now "up to infinite" in all areas. This includes speed, bandwidth, content, size, width, flavour, colour, DPI, shoe size and cost.

Oh, could they charge you on the bandwidth you use, like some sort of "meter"? But that would give customers facts, and they would be able to see through the cons!

trophymick · Mar 29, 2011, 09:05:58

Quote from: Polchraine on Mar 28, 2011, 12:57:11

Would you care to explain?

For around £145 you get access to two full BBC channels plus all of the radio channels and BBC subsidies to Ch4 and Ch5.

ITV, Ch4 and Ch5 are not free but paid for by advertising - most of which is ignored. Consumers pay for that advertising - and again have no real choice. The estimated cost per household for the non-BBC is around £500 per annum. Or three times the cost of the BBC.

I think the point is monopoly, the bbc should scramble their broadcasts and if you want to watch, subscribe, it's all about choice and we don't have any.

And the fact that they (bbc) are political puppets.

Technical Ben · Mar 29, 2011, 13:26:29

But it's not like the water company where they have not fitted a meter yet. The service by definition is metered. So why bother charging someone extra because they have a bath fitted instead of a shower? When you can charge them for the water used. As someone who has 4 showers a day will use more water than someone who baths once a week.
IE if you charge me for 5 devices when I only use 1 each day, and someone has 1 pc and uses it 4 times over what I do, I'm gonna get mad.

pctech · Mar 29, 2011, 15:55:29

Some family friends in the Republic of Ireland have their own well so don't have to pay a penny for water.

Rik · Mar 29, 2011, 16:31:54

Clava has their own well, Mitch, wonderfully soft water.

Technical Ben · Mar 29, 2011, 17:36:56

Hmmm. I always saw it as a "rent" or "tax". As some companies seem to suggest they own the catchment area you live in. So if it falls from the sky, it belongs to them.

sparkler · Mar 30, 2011, 22:44:33

Microsoft wants to charge us for internet use as well
http://www.itworld.com/software/98522/microsofts-charney-suggests-net-tax-clean-computers

Technical Ben · Mar 30, 2011, 23:04:39

I hope Linux is tax except, cos that's where I'll be heading!
Oh, I'm also working as a couch potato, I think everyone else should be taxed to my benefit. What? It works for all the other businesses! (TV/Movie/music publishers, and now microsoft!?)

pctech · Mar 31, 2011, 14:11:36

I'm not paying a net tax to MS, people just need to be better educated and those that just want to surf the net should use tablets.

Rik · Mar 31, 2011, 17:10:47

I keep saying it, but I think people should be required to take a basic proficiency test before being allowed to access the net, and be required to demonstrate that their machine is adequately protected.

Glenn · Mar 31, 2011, 17:15:33

Three would fail, they have AV, but no mal/spyware protection

Rik · Mar 31, 2011, 17:16:46

It could prove interesting for many companies, couldn't it.

Technical Ben · Mar 31, 2011, 17:57:21

Quote from: Glenn on Mar 31, 2011, 17:15:33
Three would fail, they have AV, but no mal/spyware protection

It's practically the same thing these days.
PS, "interesting" is not the word.

David · Mar 31, 2011, 18:11:03

what kind of fuel am I ,who never went above

Rik · Mar 31, 2011, 18:12:14

Little old gas guzzler me

David · Mar 31, 2011, 19:19:15

pctech · Apr 01, 2011, 11:09:49

Quote from: Glenn on Mar 31, 2011, 17:15:33
Three would fail, they have AV, but no mal/spyware protection

Odd for a company that considers itself a technical pioneer as it launched the first 3G network in the UK.