The argument rests on the assumption that the increase in bandwidth consumption is now and will continue to outpace the decrease in the cost of bandwidth produc

The argument rests on the assumption that the increase in bandwidth consumption is now and will continue to outpace the decrease in the cost of bandwidth production. I don't know how much cheaper it is to provide a gigabyte of bandwidth today than it was a year ago or a decade ago, and I know that bandwidth consumption is certainly skyrocketing, but if the rest of the technology industry is any indication (where I now pay pennies for CPU cycles that would have cost millions a few decades ago), it may turn out in the end that bandwidth becomes so cheap it doesn't matter how much video a few billion humans watch each day online. On the other hand, if it does turn out to matter how much bandwidth costs, I'd much rather pay for how much I'm using and have equal access across all channels and content types, than to have "unlimited internet" but have to wait for videos to buffer because my ISP says it has lower priority than something else or someBODY else they deem more worthy.