My concern is that it seems like telecos that offer metered fees do so as a wedge to extracting greater profits out of ALL of their users and not as a some sort

My concern is that it seems like telecos that offer metered fees do so as a wedge to extracting greater profits out of ALL of their users and not as a some sort of field leveling fairness action. Case in point: text messages. There are still many wireless plans that put a limit on the number of text messages that can be sent and crossing that limit brings about fees to the user far in excess of the costs of sending the text (10 to 15 cents per text would not be uncommon). Maybe at one point a decade ago those costs made sense (less bandwidth overall, more infrastructure needed, early adopter tax, etc.) but now we're trapped in a legacy rate structure for text messaging that simply won't go away. It's hard to predict the future, but I feel pretty secure in saying that the data caps we see today are going to seem laughably small a decade from now and I don't want the teleco's to "text messaging rate" my bandwidth from here on out. I think it hurts the industry as a whole and US competitiveness.