| If there are "net neutrality" regs, it will be necessary If the FCC is unwise enough to impose "net neutrality" regulations, no ISP will be able to stay solvent without imposing consumption-based billing. The regulations would prevent the rationing of expensive backbone bandwidth, and would therefore force ISPs to impost charges that would motivate users to "self-ration." There's no way around it, folks. Bandwidth costs money. A lot of money for smaller ISPs like mine ($100 per Mbps per month at wholesale). If we can't shape traffic and prohibit bandwidth hogging, we'll have to meter. |
