1 edit | ... Text messaging charges don't reflect cost or need, they exist because of the money suppliers make. I hope the Free Press is right, but I don't see anything standing in the way of metered billing. Where they may be wrong is ISP's costomer base is more mature now and people have become much more acustomed to having internet access, even need it, than when metered billing previously existed.
One thing is for sure, aggressive metering will drastically alter the internet. Most internet content exists because people have unmetered accounts they can use unconservatively. When people start having to make choices about how much time they spend online and/or what content they load there are going to be many things and web places that just don't get loaded anymore. |
