Port numbers and traffic data

[Dan Beale-Cocks]

Ian Batten wrote:

>  And ISPs have no obvious way to charge me more.  I could buy a static
>  IP (why?), I could move to a 20:1 contention business product (works
>  fine for me), but they're not doing a good job of selling vanilla
>  syrup, fairtrade coffee or almond croissants.  Hence, I suspect,
>  Phorm: they see it as a way of getting everyone to order a vanilla
>  latte and pay an extra 35p.  They'd do better to try to find a way to
>  get more money out of those that can and will pay it for a premium
>  service of some sort, but they don't appear to be willing to think
>  that one through.  I've heard ISPs talk about selling differentiated
>  services at differentiated prices over LLU, ie a richer range of
>  service profiles than those available on IP Stream, but when the
>  rubber hits the road LLU is just used to drive cost out.
>
>  We need someone who understands ISP economics to comment, and they
>  probably won't.


You might see the advantage in an "un bundled" service - you pay for the 
connection and everything else (web space, email, Usenet, better 
contention, faster speed, bigger download / upload allowance) is an 
extra that you pay for, but the average punter wants as many green ticks 
for as little as possible.  And they don't realise that the green tick 
in the "Unlimited download" column is often a fib.