So if bandwidth is virtually free, I'll take 150TB per month and I'll send you $10. Deal? You're probably $9.50 up on the deal so you'd be a moron not to snap my hand off. It always amazes me that there are morons out there that think bytes are effectively free. They get it that potatoes cost money, they sort of half get it that gas costs money (but they really don't like it), but they really don't see that bytes costs money, probably because it is intangible and it blows their minds that they have to pay something for well, nothing. At least why you buy potatoes, you like, have the potatoes, right? Ever thought that someone goes out there and puts up the base station, or the wire in the ground, fixes it up when it breaks, pays *their* upstream provider, pays someone in a call center listening to you whine that you don't want to pay for it, because you don't get the idea of paying for something that you can't hold in your hand. And all because you want to watch the cat playing the piano.

Errrr, wow you are one paranoid dude. Ever thought that it might be a matter of $$$ that they don't bring that fibre link to the mountain village with a population of 7 and no compooters?

Something that damages any corporation and puts their stockpiles of money back into circulation into the general economy is a good thing. Lawyers are the natural parasites that feed on money and therefore this is the natural order of things. In a perfect world I would say that they should concentrate on innovation and develop new and improved products. It's not a perfect world, so this is just fine. Let them spend years and years raking over the same coals, appealing, getting injunctions and so on, all the while with lawyers sucking off of the jugular of these behemoths.