[DOC] [TLE] The Internet Is Mr. Case's Neighborhood Techies hate it, but in ... [PAR] Mar 30, 1998 ... While most Internet companies are small-time startups awash in red ink, AOL ... 
companies, and Microsoft would like to put him out of business. .... But AOL could 
not handle the hypergrowth, in more ways than one. ... In December 1996, AOL 
replaced its $2.95-per-hour usage charges with flat-rate pricing,... [DOC] [TLE] America Online Inc.: The Portal Era - Archive@NYU - New York ... [PAR] Or I can go into this business myself and bury you." - Bill Gates ..... Most ISP's 
continue to charge a flat-rate price of $1 9.95 per month for unlimited ... 
Simultaneously, AOL announced a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems to 
generate ... lSPs has grown from 1,500 in 1996 to more than 6,500 in 1999, with 
96% of the US. [DOC] [TLE] Pricing network services: The Case of the Internet | Nogueira | First ... [PAR] The Internet is the most well-known component of what is nowadays globally 
recognized ... way of generating a variety of applications, ranging from 
educational to business ... of pricing the Internet, by presenting the Feldstein's 
approach and then the ... The Internet provides connectionless packet-switching 
service whereas... [DOC] [TLE] A modest proposal for preventing Internet congestion 1. Introduction [PAR] with congestion in packet networks such as the Internet. ... higher prices would 
attract less tra c, and thereby provide better service. Price .... determine the QoS 
required by various application, then the network is ...... Flat rate pricing often 
allows service providers to collect more revenue. ..... tions Policy, 20 (1996), 169-
181. [DOC] [TLE] Without Public Peer: The Potential Regulatory and Universal Service ... [PAR] Usage insensitive pricing of Internet access can support market development ... 
more than one's initial equipment purchase and a low, flat-rated monthly .... 
interconnection opportunities, now must persuade a larger ISP to handle its traffic
. .... as a whole, but the current business model for interconnect may easily 
generate... [DOC] [TLE] AOL Raises Flat Rate - AL.com [PAR] AOL Raises Flat Rate for Unlimited Internet Access ... provider of Internet access, 
announced recently that it would increase its flat rate for ... The theory behind flat 
rate pricing is that you can sell access to more people than you have phone lines. 
... per month to 23 hours per month since the switch to $19.95 flat rate pricing. [DOC] [TLE] Monopoly.com: Will the WorldCom-MCI Merger Tangle the Web ... [PAR] The Internet backbone providers, such as MCI, WorldCom's UUNet, and Sprint ... 
flat rate Internet access price, above the ISP retail level prices, settlements, .... 
Marginal cost pricing would result in all facilities-based carriers going out of 
business ... highly concentrated Internet backbone market (increasing the HHI 
more than... [DOC] [TLE] the economics of internet flat rates - Tlcom ParisTech [PAR] Jungmittag (2000) expect that a switch to flat-rate pricing () ... when AOL 
replaced metered charges by a flat rate in December 1996, the average time 
spent ... unlimited Internet access because the business was not viable.6 In 
August 2000, Alta Vista .... However, Internet users may subscribe to more than 
one ISP if. [DOC] [TLE] Pricing Framework for a Differential Services Internet - CiteSeerX [PAR] This flat service model has worked surprisingly well, as. the Internet has ..... which 
is set when users generate more traffic than their. committed information rate. [DOC] [TLE] Chairman's Letter - 1996 - Berkshire Hathaway [PAR] In this letter, we will occasionally refer to the manual so that we can avoid 
repeating ... Second, whatever our rate of progress, it will not be smooth: Year-to-
year ... a shareholder holds his shares, the more bearing Berkshire's business 
results will .... An insurance business has value if its cost of float over time is less 
than the... [DOC] [TLE] In the Matter of Developing a Unified Intercarrier Compensation ... [PAR] Consistent with the deregulatory goals of the 1996 Act, we seek an

Question: This internet provider's 1996 switch to flat-rate pricing generated more business than it could handle
Answer: America Online