horrible news - Metered Broadband Is the Future says Verizon CTO
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http://gigaom.com/2009/09/29/metered-broadband-is-the-future-verizon-...
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today. In comments made to press at the 2009 Fiber to the Home Conference Expo in Houston, Lynch stressed that he wasn’t announcing a shift in pricing for Verizon, but that: “We’re going to have to consider pricing structures that allow us to sell packages of bytes, and at the end of the day the concept of a flat-rate infinitely expandable service is unachievable.”He went on to explain that the pricing paradigm shift will mirror what already exists in the wireless world, rather than a per-GB pricing model. Verizon has been one of the last holdouts on the idea of metered broadband, in which an ISP charges users based on the amount of data they consume as opposed to charging a flat-rate fee for an always-on connection. The company has never said it would meter its broadband, but has defended the right of other carriers to do so.
