It could be a bustling sideline, given that he commands a top-tier fee of $65,000 to dispense his wisdom.
They gained a significant ally when Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, told a Senate panel last month that he thought a two-tier fee system would not work.
They don't think a two-tier fee system can last, though, and figure that big banks, which produce a large portion of the revenue for Visa and MasterCard, would pressure the two companies into lowering the fees that the small banks would collect as well.
What drew some ire was the suggestion that the time may be coming when hotels would purchase a lot more bandwidth from their Internet providers, but then offer Wi-Fi to guests in a tiered-fee system.
If more hotels do upgrade their Wi-Fi services, and put in place a tiered-fee system depending on which bandwidth level customers decide they need, the hotels need to do so carefully.
After the first wave of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones hit, wireless providers began revising the way they billed to account for use, in some cases instituting tiered-fee systems based on monthly data consumption.
Some critics say tiered fees hurt customers who can least afford them, but the companies and even some consumers say they are fairer than flat fees, because they penalize behavior that consumers can avoid -- like making late payments.
In 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changed reimbursement for physicians and advanced practitioners caring for patients receiving hemodialysis from a capitated to a tiered fee-for-service system, encouraging increased face-to-face visits.
Essentially, what you see here is a presentation slide from Allot and the ironically-named Openet handed out at FierceWireless describing a potential wireless money-maker – tiered, fee-based access to web services on a subscriber basis.
NH's high volume and tiered-fee strategies allow them to provide affordable quality heart surgery to the poor.
In choosing the next secretary, the Smithsonian's governing board — the regents — should select a person who is bold enough to push for a wisely constructed, tiered admission fee.
