Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

If I use more water than my neighbor, I pay more. If I use more electricity, I pay more. It's just about paying for what is used. Would people be upset if they had been paying a flat rate for their water bill and now they had to pay for what was used?

Bandwidth isn't an infinite resource. It's not too hard to burn all of the available bandwidth on a shared coax cable like is hanging on the phone pole in your alley or is buried underground. That cable is shared with everyone in your neighborhood. Once it hits a fiber node it's shared with everyone on that node.

Your internet bill won't go up to $300. Mine hasn't and I have blown over 100GB in a month before (60 GB over my limit at the time). Here's a link to my old cable company. They have a fair policy for overages. http://www.sunflowerbroadband.com/internet/