I see you avoid answering the question. The reason is that it costs the company an almost immeasurably small amount of money if you do in fact you use the internet whether that be measured in kilobytes or gigabytes.
Between overbuilding during the dot.com bubble and multiplexing, the capital outlay has already been made. Probably made by a company that went bankrupt then purchased for pennies on the dollar by your provider.
Your neighbor streaming video doesn’t cost you a penny. Probably doesn’t cost your provider more than pennies.
On the other hand if your neighbor is watching Netflix and not watching one of their pay channels or one of their channels with adds, that is going to cost them billions. That is what this is about.
Don’t begrudge your neighbor their bandwidth. It’s like begrudging them the air they breathe. It doesn’t cost you anything.
“I see you avoid answering the question.”
I answered it. You just chose to ignore.
“Your neighbor streaming video doesn’t cost you a penny.”
No but it may slow down everyone’s internet.