Perhaps consumers would pay on a per-use basis or for individual applications they find valuable.
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Credit Suisse suggests that pay-per-use pricing, if if comes to the U.S., will do little to stop Netflix.
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Unfortunately the conversation has yielded few solutions beyond pay-per-use toilets that the poor must walk miles to access.
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It is now evolving its own business more towards pay-per-use, seeking to integrate its offerings more with online applications.
T-Mobile may be planning to throw a data pay-per-use feature onto any smartphone that currently has its internet access blocked.
SideStep claims to sell a billion dollars in travel a year and that 3.5 million people per month use its technology.
According to the US Department of Commerce, Guatemala has the highest per capita use of private aircraft and helicopters in Central America.
For a range of fees, it has begun offering faster delivery, pay-per-use technical support and consultants to help customers use their plastics more efficiently.
Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.
They charge a per-use fee of around six cents.
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Japanese users pay by the packet for the data they use on DoCoMo's networks, but Americans, accustomed to flat-fee Net and phone deals, may balk at pay-per-use pricing that can result in month-end sticker shock.
Ideal for anyone planning a short stay abroad, the new packages offer tremendous value over pay-per-use rates and help keep wireless bills predictable by giving customers a bucket of minutes for one flat price when roaming in more than 220 countries.
Energy use per person is one of the most accurate indicators of what is considered prosperity and happiness.
That same car with a conventional small gasoline engine would probably get 15 kilometers per liter and use 1, 100 liters.
Buy a good hybrid car or light truck and drive it right, and you'll halve your oil use per mile.
In fact, Time Warner and Comcast are offering Replay boxes to subscribers in part to see if pay-per-view use increases.
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Sony says a single charge of the battery is sufficient for ten days, given average use per day of about 30 minutes.
Fully powered, the keyboard works for at least three months, even in total darkness (based on average use per day of eight hours).
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At Burns Middle School in Mobile, Principal John Adams has his teachers assign at least one digital project that requires Internet use per quarter.
With its narrow focus, it can provide greater support for these models to drive more efficient use per server, and therefore higher revenue per server.
Total use per employee ranged from 200 to 500 kilowatt hours.
The increase alone would be greater than America's total consumption today, yet China's energy use per person would still be only half that in America.
Wal-Mart and its suppliers cut the world's biggest civilian heavy-truck fleet's diesel use per ton-mile by 38 percent in 2004-08 and aim to halve it by 2015.
Thus, even if per acre herbicide use had remained constant, the addition of new acreage alone would account for three-quarters of his claimed increase in herbicide application.
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The PX3s also happen to be the Turtle Beach's first headset to sport a internal lithium polymer battery, reportedly scoring the user 10-15 hours of use per charge.
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Although our absolute water use exceeded our initial baseline, we also increased our total real estate square footage, which led to a decrease in water use per square foot.
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He said that since November 2011 Metro services have increased by about 1, 500 passengers per day and use of Belfast's bus based park and ride services had risen by 15%.
Among the improvements is a new 450, 000 square-foot state-of the-art paint shop that will consume dramatically less energy and water, resulting in an estimated 50 percent reduction in energy use per vehicle, GM said.
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