How data caps could reshape the economics of the Internet (again)

in the news | July 29, 2014

The Washington Post

This idea that you should pay more for greater usage is hardly new. As the New America Foundation noted last year, advocates for usage-based pricing "analogize implementing caps on Internet service to charging per kilowatt hour for electricity."

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