Damn.

CAM

EDIT:  Double damn.  I deleted the post by error, clearing spam comments.  And the email address wasn’t accurate, or in any case caused a bounce.  Hopefully, my second try at reaching the poster will work.

I don’t see why billing should be NEARLY such a burden. The rebate is a reduction in charges on your bill, noted as a line item that you don’t even have to drill down to if you don’t (this assumes you check your bill online).

The problem of metered vs. flat-rate pricing that you also raise is, unfortunately, a more serious one. Consumers love their flat-rate pricing, for all sorts of reasons, many of which are good. I’ll need to think on that.

Thanks,

CAM

Secondary problems are: Consumer will revolt at the idea of getting a huge bill, and then having to submit enormous amounts of paperwork, wait for their rebate checks to come in the mail, delayed payments may result in them not being able to pay their bill, resulting in disconnection…ick.

Additionally, the administration overhead in administrating the billing by the broadband provider, the verification of valid rebate requests by the content providers and processing of outgoing payments may be so staggering that it adds substantial cost to the whoel affair, perhaps doubling or tripling the price of that content.

The only people this solution satisfies are the ones that provide billing software and solutions.