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by SamAtt 6114 days ago
One could just as easily equate high speed internet to Cable television. You don't get charged more for watching more.

In the end it's somewhere in the middle. But the reality is that companies are making money now off unlimited access and those handy anti-trust laws we have prevent all the Internet companies from banding together to implement metered access. So even if it did make more sense it's unlikely a provider could implement it without losing out to competition (since again the current model is profitable)