Why change the funding model?
Converged communications provides the means to deliver multiple services–such as voice, data, video, and messaging–to all University faculty and staff members much the same as what is becoming available in the residential market. The marketplace is rapidly moving from charging for services on a measured or variable basis (i.e., charging for the amount of the services used) to charging on an access or fixed basis (i.e., charging for the right to use services). Converged communications blurs the definition of services that used to be delivered via separate technologies and makes traditional charging structures and methods illogical. For example, in a converged communications world, telephone services become Internet-based (often called IP-Telephony, Voice over IP, or VoIP). As a result the previous method of charging for many of these services on a measured basis is obsolete, and a new charging methodology has been developed.
Related Questions
- What are the main features of the State Librarian’s currently proposed model for state funding to public libraries?
- Why have we been looking at changes to the current model of state funding to public libraries? What is "broken?
- If the pilot is successful, what will the funding model for a national license look like?
