Yes, of course. There are bucket loads of cash to be made from sub-Saharan Africans, what with all of their disposable income.

My point is, connectivity is *not* Google primary business. Yes?

I wonder what kinds of things Google's customers will target at these people?

I find it incredible that someone was actually able to consume 77TB of bandwidth in a month on a residential connection.

You find it incredible that a small ISP (which is essentially what he was running) that's streaming video to (I presume) most of it's users (from the sound of it) consumed 77TB of data in a month? The person who needs to have his nerd qualifications rechecked isn't the OP.

Stories like this, about things the DON'T Matter, should be ignored. Seriously, letâ(TM)s just agree that Facebook is cooked and done, and move onâ¦

But of course, /. no longer uses the "Stuff That Matters" moniker... Much of the time itâ(TM)s not even all that âoegeekyâ.

You, sir, are a pedantic ninny. Let's see how far that will take you with Verizon... Oh? You'll "sue" them? Will you really? Big talk from a guy with a neck beard sitting in his mother's basement wearing his mother's panties while playing WoW...

And steel is just an alloy of iron and other elements, right.

Or is it more complex than that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete

Christ, it's an argumentative 19-20-somthing! RUN!

You're a moron, but at your age, that is to be expected.

Many companies exhibit sociopathic behaviors in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value.

No, A/C, the point being he violated the ToS, so they called him on it. It's really that simple.

But it's *NOT* an "all you can eat" buffet without ground rules - the ToS, the contract *HE* ageed to.

The contract he agreed to says that he can't run these types of services on a HOME account. He agreed to this, it's not some mystery to Verizon made up "on the fly".

No, that's not "my logic" at all.

To any reasonable person, what this guy is doing is not "home use". He's providing business level services to people outside his home and outside his family.

But this is irrelevant, because it's contrary to the contract that he himself agreed to.

That's odd, many people run businesses out of their homes. It can't be Comcast, they had no problem giving me a business connection in my apartment.

You should be persistent; maybe they think you're a spammer / kiddie porn peddler / "pirate".

They are probably trained that running a server on a HOME account is almost always contrary to the terms that the user agreed to when signing up for the HOME plan...

I can't wait for FiOS to come to my area, right now I have Comcast Business at my home because I wish to run a server for various purposes (nope, I let Google handle my domain email, though there are other options). Comcast has ZERO issues with my usage becasues - guess what? - I'm not violating the ToS since I have a BUSINESS plan.

You're being disingenuous, you know this is not a home use. And, whether or not he is "charging" does not define a "business" use.

But really, the bottom line is that he agreed to the terms of a CONTRACT that almost certainly disallow this type of activity, to really "limited" or "unlimited" is irrelevant.

Folks, the issue here has nothing to do with the reality of an "unlimited" plan (yet).

It has to do with running a BUSINESS on a plan designed for HOME USE.