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What you are ok with paying and what the median Verizon customer is ok with are probably not the same thing.



I'm about as ok with paying $100 for internet as I am with paying $4/gallon for gas during the summer. Read: not very.

But that's what it costs. Make it clear to the consumer what things cost and they'll either curtail their usage or cough up the money. Maybe they should have a charge per GB of transfer over some monthly limit. I don't know. But obscuring it through a bunch of additional business deals on the back-end isn't going to make those costs go away, it's just a way to hide them and delay the day when ISPs compete with each other on actual cost per GB delivered.




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