said by Phil75070:Metered billing would be 'OK' depending on the caps, but the problem is a lot of bandwidth gets eaten up by stuff one doesn't want, advertising, embedded video and music, etc.
thats a side effect i dont think they have thought of. if they went to metered billing and people started blocking every single advertisement out there. then what? personally i dont block "most" of the ad's, since they do support the sites i use. (the amazingly annoying ones with audio goes right to my block list in my router). so if they go to metered billing and people start blocking them all, what happens to the sites that depend on that cash flow? paywalled? not likely to survive long after that unless they have some REALLY good content. no, what will end up happening is advertisers finding even more sneaky dirty underhanded tricks to get their ad's seen.
i am reminded of pop-up and pop-under hell :|