Packet counts are a poor estimate of cost or usage. They might as well charge customers by the minute with variable rates based on how many hops are required or

Packet counts are a poor estimate of cost or usage. They might as well charge customers by the minute with variable rates based on how many hops are required or which companies' "web partners" you visited for all the sense it makes. Do you know how many 'broadband' customers you can get out of a 1000/1000 strand of fiber? Way more than you'd guess. And at our monopoly rates, you could pay off everything you needed to serve it to them in less time than Comcast's and AT&T's CEOs will spend caring about actually providing service that meets the definition of broadband.