> If you make it so that fixed bills are the only way to bill customers then what incentives do internet providers have to improve capacity? To grab customers

> If you make it so that fixed bills are the only way to bill customers then what incentives do internet providers have to improve capacity? To grab customers from the competition of course? Consumers will move from congested ISPs to unccongested ones, this provides incentive for all ISPs to be as uncongested as possible if they want to keep their customers and revenues. Of course, this presumes there's actual competition between ISPs and that consumers can choose freely, which is why this inherently stupid discussion is only present in parts of the US and Canada.