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by lordCarbonFiber 3127 days ago
You really shouldn't be posting this FUD even as a devil's advocate.

You don't (and hopefully should never) pay by the bit. The marginal cost of sending bits (any bit) is 0; the ISPs know this but would love to resurrect the SMS gravy train of charging for things that are free. Any packet inspection necessary to provide a non NN internet is only going to increase latency not lead to any measurable improvement to quality at the consumer end.