Fidelity Investments, America's biggest mutual-fund company, recently struck a deal with Lehman Brothers to pay a fixed subscription fee for the investment bank's research, in return for lower commissions on trades.
The company — which was founded by former Groupon APAC head Joel Neoh — takes its cues from a number of companies in the U.S. which have pioneered the concept of paying a fixed subscription fee for access to multiple gyms and fitness options.
"Our biggest expenditure is getting people to understand our system of a fixed-fee subscription rental without late charges," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix's vice president for content and acquisition.
But the best non-Apple option I could find was the Kindle Fire HD, a choice made easier thanks to Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, a fixed-price subscription-based service ($5 per child) that lets children shop on their own for books, apps, games and movies, without surprise bills.
Users can set a fixed cost or a subscription based cost as well using PayPal.
I also know what it's like to live on a fixed income, where a subscription-based anything is considered luxury.
It offers individual tech products by monthly, three-monthly or yearly subscription, or via its newly launched "Grover Mix" subscription, which has a fixed monthly price and lets you switch item at any time.
In a packet-based wireless system, the user would pay either according to the volume of bits that are sent and received or on a subscription basis for a fixed monthly fee.
He said they showed that the companies had paid Kerr an annual subscription and then a fixed fee for each name they wanted him to run through his database.
For a fixed annual fee, members of each subscription program have access to an integrated set of services, typically including: best practices research studies, executive education seminars, customized research briefs, Web-based access to the program's content database and decision support tools.
They would then share the earnings proportionate to how much traffic they drive, or how many new subscriptions, or maybe just a fixed rate.
