[Soothesayer9]

“The monthly bill will be proportional to use.”

- Already experience this with the monthly caps. 30 gigs download for 40 bucks a month.

“All that spam in your mailbox will make you exceedingly angry as you pay to transfer crap you didn’t want in the first place.”

- Bell already does this and has for some time now. Comcast can also get stuffed. And so can every other capping, throttling, choking, cesspool who rips off, lies, and cheats their customers out of their hard earned money.

If I had somewhere else to go, I’d have gone by now. In any event I hope they get what is coming to them. If I pay 15 bucks a month for unlimited premium Usenet access, then by God I want what I paid for.

[samsmom]

Aaaaarrrrrghhh. How can this be happening and no one is challenging it in court?

[Myrddin]

Proportional billing in my example means what I paid for satellite access. 23 cents per kilobyte transferred. Verizon Wireless at 10 cents per megabyte transferred on a non-contract, casual use approach. The 5GB/$60 rate that I currently pay works out to 12 cents for 10 MB. What I expect will happen is higher rates for a given amount of data. Absent caps, the naive consumer will get bombed with ISP bills that will make an ARM reset look like a picnic. The government will jump in to "fix" the problem by providing subsidies for the "poor" and taxing the crap out of the rest of us to make it "fair".