Comment Re:A Simple Solution (Score 1) 548
Try reading your water or electric bill sometime. If you are a typical residential user about 70% of your water bill is fixed costs for access to the tubes (and yes we are talking about tubes here). You pay only a marginal amount for increased volume of water. With internet traffic the costs are even more imbalanced because there is no tangible good such as water or electricity. The costs for increasing volume are negligible in comparison to the costs for installing and maintaining the base connection. The problem here is the aging local internet infrastructure in the same way that cities are incurring skyrocketing costs for maintenance of failing sewers, water lines and power lines. It is not "Bandwidth Hogs" (thank you for falling prey to industry propaganda) it is the failure of local ISPs to invest and maintain their own infrastructure as they saw demand changing.