[endorphone]

The article doesn't provide any argument to support the ridiculous headline.

Before Comcast had a punitive financial threshold they used to throttle the heaviest users. Now they simply charge those users, while presumably the majority of people are cognizant that they should use some discretion to avoid the fees.

Another user opines "it’s still limited by your maximum throughput and the number of days in a month" and this is an argument that seriously rubs me the wrong way because it's effectively a tragedy of the commons type argument -- I love having blistering fast internet when I need to download something, etc. But I realize I don't have a committed 500Mbps across the internet, and not far from me it's a shared resource.

[mikeash]

I was responding to the claim that an unthrottled connection is “infinite.” I wasn’t actually making an argument about throttling or overage charges.

I actually think charging for use makes a lot of sense. There’s no reason my monthly bill should be the same as my neighbor when they use it for nothing but email.