I'd agree to an extent with what you are saying, but the major problem here is their pricing structure. There is no chance that the 29.95/5gb package being proposed, is priced in correlation to the cost of that data going over their network. I'd wager that it's more a drastic attempt to curb the loses they are experiencing from many users watching their TV programs and movies online instead of paying for cable TV services...

Unless they DRASTICALLY change the prices here, not only will they be doing the customer a large disservice, but new technology will effectively be bottle necked by the end user's bandwidth cap. Already today many people are streaming video online (netflix, youtube, hulu, etc), playing CPU games which involves the downloading of large patches frequently, downloading music, and console gaming services such as XBox Live. If most broadband had unreasonably low caps and high costs, many of these services may have never become successful. Is that really the path we want to go down?

So you think that the average user (IE the person that just checks email and sends photos to their grandchildren) should be the standard to which we are all charged 29.95 for a 5gb plan? I can download 5gb in a couple of hours without there being any "dubious legality". Those of us that are more technically inclined should not be punished because of the "average user", who are in all likelihood the people on the phone with Dell when their wireless mouse runs out of batteries...

she doesn't go back in.