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Not Nostr related per se, but something I've always been curious about, technically.

Does data actually get "consumed"? In the sense that, if your provider gives you a quota of X bytes, at A dollars, is there an actual calculable cost for the provider to provide you with more?

Obviously data are transistors going on and off, so more data is more electricity used. But is there really a difference in terms of operating costs for the data provider that could justify noticeably higher prices for larger data quotas?

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mike 1y ago

The 95th percentile algorithm is an interesting study around this.

hh 1y ago

I see. So it's basically a market-driven price. Charge whatever the 95th percentile will pay?

mike 1y ago

Huh?

Where are you doing your research?

No. You need to take peak demand into capacity management.

You are not planning for average use, but peak usage which can be mitigated in many ways.

Try to separate corporate decisions about profit from technical ones.

Once you understand capacity management, then you decide how much profit you want to make.