On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:25:56 -0500 (EST), Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net> wrote:
How about we regulat the Internet like the Electric Utility and charge per byte transferred? :)
You know, that's already happening Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1] broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes "most" srs [1] (and I mean really high speed, compared to what gets sold as DSL stateside, and way, way over the $75 a month, 3 gig transfer capped 512K dsl line I use in India)