We think the Internet is not properly priced if it's free, or if it's even mostly flat rate. To sustain growth and evolution, the Internet needs metering infrastructure and competitive pricing along various dimensions of access and backbone usage. Obviously offended, a huge guy at the end of the bar turned red with anger and lunged toward the drunk.
Telephone bills are what get people angry about metering.
But the problem with telephone bills is not metering. Oddly, telephone monopolists and anti-meterists both say telephone services are expensive in large part because of the high costs of metering itself. But keep in mind that for a century telopoly profits depended on parading high costs in front of regulators. This is about to change, says Uberoi. I'd bet these big ISPs are getting stock with their announcements.