Most VoIP services are effectively flat-rate telephony services, since only the broadband internet fees must be paid for PC-to-PC calls, and the calls themselves are free. Some PC-to-telephone services, such as SkypeOut offer flat rates for national calls to landlines.
Flat rate is common in broadband access to the Internet in the USA and many other countries.
A charge tariff is a class of linear rate, different from the flat rate, where the user is charged by the uploads and downloads (data transfers). Some GPRS / data UMTS access to the Internet in some countries of Europe has no flat rate pricing, following the traditional "metered mentality". Because of this, users prefer using fixed lines (with narrow or broadband access) to connect to the Internet.
A wavy rate is not a linear rate, because the Internet surfer pays the monthly fixed price to use the connection only during a certain range of hours of the day (i.e. only in the morning or, more typically, only at night).
Road users are normally charged a combination of fixed and variable fees, in the form of vehicle duty and fuel duty. Motorway tolls in some countries (Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia) are paid by purchasing weekly, monthly or annual stickers attached to the windscreen.
The same flat rate for a particular job is paid, even if it takes the worker longer to do the job than the time shown for that job in the flat manual. Because of this, the customer does not have to pay more to a worker who takes longer to do a job than the flat rate time.
A worker who works slower than the flat rate time earns less money over time because the worker's slowness means the worker performs fewer jobs over a given period of time because each job takes longer due to the worker's slowness.
In this case, flat rate serves as an incentive for the worker to learn to perform the job in the flat rate time, so that the worker may perform more jobs in a given time, as the worker is paid per job.
Because flat rate pays a set amount for a particular job, a worker who learns to work faster is rewarded for efficiency.
Because the efficient worker is also paid per job, the worker who performs more jobs in a given time period is paid the set amount for each job.
Because the efficient worker can perform more jobs in a given period of time, the worker is paid more because the worker performed more jobs.
Flat rate is used by the service industry because it does not penalize efficiency. A worker who develops the skill to perform a job faster is not paid less per job as a result, so a fast worker is not paid less to work quickly.
Because flat rate pays at a predetermined price per job, the customer pays the same price whether the worker is faster or slower than the flat rate time.
The worker is paid in accordance with the work performed.
The efficient worker is rewarded for being skilled enough to do the job in less time than the flat rate manual.
The customer benefits from the worker performing the job in less time than the flat rate manual by having the service completed faster.
However, many shops do not use flat rate manuals and make their own determination without doing any time studies whatsoever. When this method is used it does not matter how efficient a technician is, they are guarantee to lose money.
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