For starters what you’re suggesting is logically equivalent to completely removing all net neutrality principles. Allowing service providers complete discretion

For starters what you’re suggesting is logically equivalent to completely removing all net neutrality principles. Allowing service providers complete discretion over service discrimination. Just think about what you’re suggesting for more than a second. Do you want your base contract to only allow you to send and receive calls within the service providers network? Do you want to have people trying to call you get caught up in an endless web of spam filters? Do want to have to pay extra for the ability to receive calls from over seas? How do you think developing economies would fare if they could essentially never make a phone call to the US again? Because all that and worse would be an inevitable outcome of the rules you’re suggesting. The phone system is an open and distributed system, just like email is. It’s everything HN should love. But then you get comments like this which at the first sign of a system showing its natural distributed-system-related short comings, are all of a sudden asking for centralised walled gardens.