On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Tony Li wrote: > Sorry, ISPs charge based on providing a *service*. Yes, that > includes bandwidth (and generally flat bandwidth, not usage) and also Actually, bandwidth USAGE is frequently charged for in many parts of the world. In the US, it is common for small businesses to have flat rates or included bytes sufficient to make the usage flat rate. Major last mile providers also change a lot more when provisioning for static IPs and presumed higher bandwidth consumption. Every colocated or shared server agreement I've investigated recently has included bandwidth charges for exceeding the included usage. That applies in spades to folks to provide datacenter cages. In some parts of the world, even dialup customers have bandwidth changes. Data costs in some third world countries can be many times that of the US. Dave Morris _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf