The phrase "a basic tier of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a foundational level or category within a system, service, or structure.
Example: "The subscription model offers a basic tier of services that includes essential features for all users."
Alternatives: "a fundamental level of" or "an introductory category of".
FreedomPop — the startup that has built a mobile service based on the premise of a free basic tier of voice and data services — has announced plans to launch its services in Spain, its second market in Europe after the UK.
The cost of a basic tier two visa for a sponsored skilled migrant in Britain is already £578 and contrasts with only £95 charged for a work permit back in 2003.
Prioritizing opportunities to receive a kidney transplant could also be seen to be part of a basic tier guaranteed to all and paid for by transfer payments.
BSkyB's chief financial officer, Andrew Griffith, said that despite the low-cost nature of Now TV the company was finding that a proportion of customers were buying multiple packages and spending "in excess of what a basic tier [TV] customer is paying".
But Hindery did not sound hopeful of a deal with Cablevision to put YES on a basic tier.
Hazlett says that platform players like Verizon and Comcast can't mimic the a la carte strategy because of the 1992 Cable Act, which mandates that all cable providers' offers must start with a basic tier that includes the over-the-air channels, the so-called "buy through provision". You have to buy through the basic tier; additional channels must be on top of that.
There should be no obstacles financial, racial, geographical, and so on to access to the basic tier of the system.
Wildlife trafficking criminal networks typically organize themselves into a hierarchical structure supporting the three basic tiers of a normal economic process linking supply and demand (e.g. [21]) – producers (e.g. poachers and associated middle men or organizers), supply chains (e.g. shipping routes facilitated by exporters) and consumer retailers (e.g. sellers in markets supplying end-users).
YES is carried on the expanded basic tiers of all other systems in the region, and on DirecTV.
