[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[tim at pelican.org]

On Friday, 24 July, 2020 14:52, "Nick Hilliard" <nick at foobar.org> said:

> yep, that works fine for electricity because the cost of generating
> electricity is a significant percentage of the amount that the end user
> pays.  I.e. the marginal cost is significant, so it's worth billing per
> kWh.  If this model had been a better way of charging for residential ip
> data delivery, it would have been deployed a long time ago, but the
> marginal cost per bit isn't worth it in the majority of cases because
> the cost of mass billing is so high.

Not forgetting the cost of billing *disputes*.

It's been a couple of decades since I worked in residential Internet, but when I did, if the customer called you, ever, for any reason, the contract was essentially running at a loss.  I can't imagine margins have got better...

Regards,
Tim.