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Close but No Cigar

Personally, I liked Steve Hargreaves article about the concept of charging extra for electrical power at peak hours of the day. Anyone who has see rolling blackouts during the summer in California or New York can appreciate the efforts to "help people" understand how much their decisions can impact the greater electrical grid.

However, his analogy about this rating scheme being like current wireless call rating seems a little out of date. I have no knowledge of Hargreaves wireless bill, but my wireless plan hasn't charged me more for using my cell during peak hours for several years. Roaming during peak? Yes. International calls during peak? Yep. However in network calling during peak hours just costs me the price of $0.0x per minute from my "all you can eat" calling bucket. This is just like my current electrical billing. Perhaps Hargreaves is hoping to go "back to the future..." :)

Technorati Tags: Utility Billing, Wireless Billing

  Posted by jmyers on March 13, 2007 8:00 AM |

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