Re: Airtel wants to pierce net neutrality, charges more for VoIP

Tarun Dua <lists-w/I/[email protected]>
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"For the Internet, I believe the rates should be zero, because monitoring,
billing, handling complaints, sending goons to collect, etc etc cost more
than they bring in."

+1 to that. The subscriber management systems are energy in-efficient and
the counting of bits costs way more than the bits themselves ironically. A
cursory viewing of BSNL's tenders and pricing received per port for 3G/2G
subscriber management costs should make that clear to everyone.

The cost of moving bits can't be zero or near zero but can definitely be
finite. In a recent response to TRAI's paper on broadband, Airtel's
provided the cost of fiber and copper pass-through per house and it was
hardly any different. Fiber can happily do 100 Mbit last miles at no
massive cost difference.

Regards
-Tarun

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