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Electronic village of Abingdon “91st Day” Subcommittee MINUTES 3 January,
2001 Rescheduled Meeting 12:30 PM The rescheduled regular meeting of the Electronic Village of Abingdon “91st Day” Subcommittee held in the Johnston Memorial Hospital Cafeteria was opened by Dr. F. H. Moore, Jr., Chairman. There were ten participants present. These included:
The minutes of the 13 December 2000 meeting were approved as presented. The next items for review was the status of new connections, including:
The extension to the proposed new Police Department and recreation complex is underway,.and is now nearing completion with Sprint making terminal splices at this time. The main topic at the meeting was a differentiated rate structure for high-bandwidth users as continued from the 13 December meeting. Jay Cox, while unable to attend, had forwarded the following message: I have looked at scores of
sites of folks that provide bandwidth related transfer pricing. They are all over the board, but it looks
like they pretty well center around a base of 5GB transfer per month and an
incremental charge of $20 per GB after.
For extremely high usage rates, 50GB and above, the per GB rate gets
cheaper. We were to look at the
issue of originating a plan for "resale" commercial Town Network
service. We recognized that the
standard of measure was data transfer quantity, not necessarily IP addresses,
or bandwidth. I suggested we could
measure the bandwidth utilization and report at today’s meeting. We measured utilization, but were not able
to measure transfer quantities (However, we are still trying to measure
transfer quantities and will have to report back). From the bandwidth
utilization, it appears that no one on the Town Network is using up to the 5GB
base. If we were to set the floor for
commercial resale accounts at 5GB per month it would not affect any existing
customers. I recommend we establish a
resale type of account, which has the same base pricing as all the other
accounts ($35/mo, etc.) which would include 5GB of transfer per month and an
incremental rate of $20 per GB over 5GB.
I further recommend that we leave the incremental rate for high usage
open for the time until we can correctly measure the data transfer as opposed
to bandwidth utilization. We should be
able to complete this by the next meeting.
I would anticipate that the incremental rate for high utilization (for
example, 40GB and over) would be in the range of industry standards, and
significantly less than the $20/GB over 5GB base rate. Ed Honaker will be
attending today’s meeting. Thanks. Jay Following some discussion of the matter, it was determined that when a valid method of measuring transfer quantities for such service could be demonstrated, a differentiated rate on the order of Jay Cox’s suggestion, above, would be established. Any high bandwidth users would be connected at the normal rates, but the differentiated rate would be applied after such rates were fairly and equitably established. The next EVA meeting will be held on
the normal last Wednesday meeting date, which is 28 February, 2001. There
being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:12 PM. Respectfully Submitted, Albert C. Bradley, Secretary |