The projected end user price of $25 per month averages basic service accounts and additional fees for premium subscriptions and value added services.
While production costs or end user prices of technologies are not specified in the papers reviewed, even scaled-down high-tech versions are often too expensive for use in LMICs, and will require user training and device maintenance.
Based on a $450 per user price, a conservative estimate is an acquisition value of approximately $105 million at the end of year three, increasing to over $1 billion by the end of year five.
Every country has a slightly different approach to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies and Know-Your-Customer (KYC) requirements, and the costs of complying with these laws will have an impact on end-user pricing.
But what's maybe even more important is that GitHub Business Cloud and GitHub Enterprise (now called Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise Server) have become one and are now sold under the 'GitHub Enterprise' label and feature per-user pricing.
Pantucci says that he hopes the new per-user pricing will be more equitable to both smaller and larger teams, as small teams shouldn't have to pay the same as their big, corporate bretheren.
After they reach over 1,000 monthly active users, pricing begins at $99 per month for up to 25,000 monthly active users and increases from there.
A Segway, after all, represents a fairly significant investment for casual users, priced between $4,500 for the most powerful model and $3,000 for a more compact version.
It's weighted because HP sells more PCs than Acer; and the ASP is the price at which the manufacturers sell machines to wholesalers, not the end-user price.
The same documents show that Chumlong was paying $6,500 per kg for the horn – a tenth of the end-user price in China, meaning that for that six-month period his rhino traffic alone was potentially worth $13.9m to those involved.
