[ale] Verizon Wireless IP

[Chris Fowler]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:49:05 -0400
Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just for the heck of it, I asked Verizon if it would be possible to 
> obtain a static IP address for a netbook.  They said "yes" and that 
> it would cost $500.  I suspect they got their IPs for free and it 
> seems that they have a least one class A domain. In addition, I 
> suspect that they may have multiple class As. To me, this seems to be 
> border line immoral.  Is there a rational for this other than 
> greed?  I know that version 4 IPs are becoming less available, but 
> version 6 is just around the corner.

I don't find it at all greedy.  The price has to be set so that everyone
does not ask for one.  This is a mobile device that is not on 24x7?  If
so, why should you be allowed to reserve and address when you're not
using the netbook?  If this was home DSL I can understand because it is
up 24x7.  There are only so many IPs left!

They own the class A they can charge what they want.  


> 
> I keep remembering that much of The Internet was made more useful by 
> lowly graduate students making pittance.
> 

It was made more useful by many people.