<sarcasm>My god! Private, for-profit companies want to charge customers based on the amount of resources they consume. What is this world coming to?</sarcasm>
I think this issue is fairly simple. There is no reason the government should be telling companies how to run their businesses. I don't like UBB, but I see no reason why companies should not be allowed to engage in the practice. As with the net neutrality issue, the problem is a lack of competition, not a lack of regulation. There is obviously a demand for unlimited Internet and, as the article said, smaller ISPs would like to provide the service. We should be pushing policy makers to make it easier for new ISPs to break into the market and to provide service that utilizes their own infrastructure, instead of relying on the existing companies and common carrier provisions. Here are a few ideas of what we can do: http://thesis.kline.ca/net-neutrality?start=4 But the open media guys are not pushing for competition, because they think the Internet should be a public good. Simply put, they hate private companies and look to the government to solve all their problems. It is no wonder that the NDP is on the same side of the issue. Jesse
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