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A Flexible Time-Based Pricing Policy For Charging Internet Services
White Papers This paper discusses the applicability of the duration-based pricing scheme for charging Internet services that constantly occupy the resources. Designing rational pricing plans is very important for ISPs to reflect actual cost and to promote...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
A Business Model For Charging And Accounting Of Internet Services
White Papers Besides from the implementation of charging and accounting mechanisms for Internet services, it is essential to define a business model for electronic business applications. Since bandwidth is and will remain a scarce network resource in the future...
[August 25, 2004, 10:33]
Evolution Of Charging And Billing Models For GSM And Future Mobile Internet Services
White Papers The methods for collecting the charging and billing information and charging models for processing this data into subscriber bills are discussed. A selection of proposed Internet charging models are applied to the mobile network market and their...
[November 10, 2005, 0:00]
Vodafone Considers Charging For Mobile Spam
News Mobile network operator Vodafone is considering charging business customers for sending multimedia messages in an attempt to prevent its mobile messaging systems becoming clogged up with unsolicited junk mail.
[June 7, 2004, 17:50]
MSN Site Could Charge Surfers
News Microsoft confirmed today that it is considering charging users for "premium services" provided through its UK Internet portal MSN, the most visited site in the UK. The company issued a statement saying that existing facilities, including the...
[February 26, 2001, 12:14]
Will Yahoo!'s Fee Plan Set A Precedent?
News With "make money" the new Web mantra, industry analysts say companies will soon start charging for services they once offered for free. It's not that companies want to start charging for services such as online payments and classified listings.
[January 4, 2001, 8:38]
Social Networks Start To Charge
News After months of anticipation, fees for social networking services, which let people create linked networks of personal profiles for social or professional ends, will make their debut on Tuesday, when Tickle starts charging for access to some...
[January 27, 2004, 13:35]
Sun Adds Price Tag To StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems will bundle StarOffice 6.0, its productivity software, with additional services and support to make the package more attractive when it begins charging for the tools next month. If OpenOffice still exists, and it's GPLed, and they...
[March 21, 2002, 13:59]
Yahoo!'s New Video Not Free For Long
News said on Monday that it has added more free video programming to its site, but the Web portal said it would start charging consumers for some streamed content by the end of the year. It's an extremely imprudent time to start charging for random...
[October 30, 2001, 11:21]
Yahoo Cans Streaming Video
News Yahoo is expected to stop selling its streaming-video service as a stand-alone product within the next few weeks, according to sources familiar with the plan, raising new questions about the viability of charging for television-like content over...
[October 31, 2003, 10:50]
IT Cost Charging Challenges
White Papers This process consists of Registering IT costs, determining the costs of the delivered IT Services, and when desired, charging these costs to whoever makes use of these IT Services. When charging IT costs to other organization units, it means that...
[April 3, 2004, 0:00]
AltaVista Rejects Unmetered, Industry Reacts
News It is certainly an issue that BT's charging regime makes it difficult to offer unmetered services but if it is difficult you shouldn't say you can deliver. There is currently a fiercely fought battle going on in the industry to provide users with...
[August 22, 2000, 12:34]
MSN Previews Next Net Service
News However, there are hints that the company is at least considering charging more for MSN 8 to compete with AOL's $23.90 a month. By charging for MSN 8, Microsoft mirrors a similar program by AOL that allows people using rival ISPs to also gain entry...
[July 17, 2002, 7:55]
Apple Starts Charging For Formerly Free Software
News The trend toward charging for once-free software began when Apple started charging for .Mac in 2002. In an attempt to ease the shift, Apple is trying to offer more with the paid version of iLife than it did with the standalone applications, much as...
[January 9, 2004, 8:00]
Microsoft: 'We Won't Charge To Fix Vulnerabilities'
News We are not charging the user for anything related to vulnerabilities," Eckert said. There is an inherent premise in the issue of propriety of charging for security that resonates in an interesting way.
[July 6, 2005, 9:40]
Broadcasters Revolt Against Spectrum Charges
News Spectrum charging would direct money away from developing really excellent digital TV services which would help to boost digital take-up," said Thomson. Clive Jones, joint managing director of ITV, told MPs that spectrum charging was not an...
[June 19, 2002, 17:27]
McNealy Scoffs At .Net
News That's $50 that they're charging from you for info that they stole from you. Although it may allow users to compile and store personal data through Passport for free initially, McNealy said, it will eventually begin charging and generating a hefty...
[July 24, 2001, 14:54]
Pearson Denies FT.com To End Free Access
News The Wall Street Journal and The Economist are about the only people to have made a success of charging for content, because they both have a very strong brand name and lots of offline sales. While Ulph agrees that the Financial Times is very...
[February 6, 2001, 14:58]
Microsoft Deal May Give BT Edge Over Broadband Rivals
News Tsatsani believes, though, that ISPs may soon stop charging a single flat-fee for their broadband accounts and will move to a tiered charging system where the cost depends on the amount of bandwidth used each month as well as factors such as...
[November 8, 2002, 11:50]
Euro Satellite Navigation Takes To The Skies
News But the applications most likely to benefit are road charging and vehicle speed limiting systems. Current congestion charging technology is too expensive to roll out everywhere, while GPS is not accurate enough to use to charge motorists, he said.
[July 27, 2006, 12:10]
