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I have never understood the big bruhaha over this. What's wrong with charging someone more money if they use more bandwidth and/or server space? I see it no differently than charging different rates for local and long-distance phonecalls, or charging more for data transfer than voice transmission on cellphones.
Seriously, will someone please explain why charging someone more when they use more of your product is so horrible? If they charge -too- much, customers will switch providers, just like they do now. In areas with only one ISP, such a situation opens up a substantial opportunity for entrepreneurship and competition, which would keep (or drive) prices lower.
This doesn't seem any different than different cellphone companies charging different rates for voice, data, etc....and then turning those prices into points of competition. Some companies compete on price, some on services, some on price -for- certain services, etc. Why would ISPs be any different?
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