>In the future we'll be paying a nominal fee for a faster connection - >around 8Mb download and 800Kb/s for uploads - and we'll be charged for >the amount of data that goes through our connection in both directions. >The technology already exists to measure this and the ISPs are currently >getting their software together so that billing will be automatic. Expect >a big change in a year or two at most.
They have been talking about this for years. I don't know that it will really come about. Bandwidth (at least in the USA) is getting larger and larger and cheaper and cheaper every day. There becomes less and less of a reason to charge per megabyte as each month passes. Plus, at least here in the USA, ISPs are constantly adding value added services that take up a ton of bandwidth (streaming videos, music, better gaming, video conferencing). If they changed over to a meter system, they would cut out their current cash cow value added services. It is just like phone service, more and more phone providers are moving away from a metered system and towards an unlimited flat rate system. At least, that is the way it is here in the USA (I already know that the USA's version of selling internet service isn't the same as most of the rest of the world). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
