Are LTE and whatever data link protocol satellite uses circuit-based?

Because the data usage with free nights model is simpler to explain to subscribers while remaining close enough, and because you have not yet explained more of these corner-cases to me. My going hypothesis is that 95th percentile bandwidth is roughly proportional to usage per customer during peak hours, and I'm ready to read arguments that prove it wrong.

Stop. How would the BSD code not be enough prior art to anticipate (and thus invalidate) such a patent?

Which one is the recurring fee and which one is the one-time fee?

Anyone want to inform Wikimedia of this? It expects editors to abandon copyright in changes that they submit to end-user help pages for MediaWiki.

I'm not understanding. Please explain in more detail how data caps at the level of an individual subscriber do nothing to change 95th percentile aggregated across hundreds of subscribers.

For one thing, for existing insureds with an out-of-pocket limit higher than permissible under the Affordable Care Act, the insurance company would have to cancel the remainder of the old policy and enroll the insured in a new policy with the lower limit as of the effective date of the Affordable Care Act. Recording this cancellation and enrollment would take some coding. For another, what a policy defines as an out-of-pocket cost and what the Affordable Care Act defines as an out-of-pocket cost may differ. An insurer may have to count costs that are deemed out-of-pocket under the Affordable Care Act separately from costs that are deemed out-of-pocket under the current policy, and it may be complaining that it lacks infrastructure to separately count these costs.

The business tier is Internet service. The residential tier is not because not is cheaper to provide, and the majority of residential subscribers have little need to run a server.

Even if individuals as such can't buy the business tier, is it really that hard to set up a sole proprietorship?

Except that the sender-pays model of long-haul Internet transit implies a different cost for each direction, as alen pointed out.

I think grandparent's assertion is that "something that resembles Internet access, but has road blocks everywhere" should be good enough for anyone who isn't running a business.

In database design, it's a best practice for a schema to support zero, one, or unlimited amount of something. Perhaps the schema is architected to support only one limit, that of your current medical plan, not a second limit, that of the Affordable Care Act.

A lot of these $4 per month web hosts support only PHP and no other languages like Python or Ruby, or they support only MySQL and no other DBMS like PostgreSQL, or they support only HTTP and not HTTPS.

Not always. Say you bought a fourth-generation iPod touch in September 2012, about a month before the fifth-generation iPod touch came out. Because this device won't get iOS 7, you don't have a guaranteed two years of updates.

That and the fact that the ISP can claim that a subscriber was accepting incoming TCP connections. In fact, some ISPs have installed carrier-grade NAT to block incoming connections.

An ISP can deal with simplifying the explanation the same way that sat and cell have for years. Cellular voice plans that bill by the minute often allow the user to pay a flat rate for a "nights and weekends" option that turns off metering outside 0600 to 2100 local time Monday through Friday, occasionally with a second "evening" option for an additional charge that also turns off metering from 1900 to 2100. Exede, a satellite ISP, turns off metering from 0000 to 0500, giving the customer a chance to run large downloads such as game installations, movie purchases, and operating system updates.