Heh from an Australian point of view this is all amusing - we've been paying for a usage allowance for data since broadband came in. Pretty much just shaped to

Heh from an Australian point of view this is all amusing - we've been paying for a usage allowance for data since broadband came in. Pretty much just shaped to 64k speeds (dialup essentially) for the rest of the month once you go over a limit. Some dodgier outfits (most notably Telstra, the national telecommunications company) will charge users an exhorbitant excess fee for excess data. This is why Australians will bitch when torrent sites post a fake file as an April fool's joke...