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Mobile carriers certainly manage to bill per MB. But I don't think people would like their rates. People forget that a lot of the information pre-web was somew
by pjc50 1y ago
Mobile carriers certainly manage to bill per MB. But I don't think people would like their rates.
People forget that a lot of the information pre-web was somewhat pricey, and especially anything routed through a telco. The web drove prices to zero, which has had some bad effects and many very good ones.
- SoftTalker 1y agoAlso newsletters, magazines, journals, etc. related to any interest you might have would require a paid subscription. Or a visit to the library, if you could convince them to subscribe.
- ruszki 1y agoAt least there would be an incentive to reduce size. I could easily got the same amount of information with the same quality when I had 3 MB/month 20+ years ago.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoI was thinking about charging per TCP handshake, or even closing their connection if the user is exceeding the typical throughput a human would need to use the site's service. Dystopian, but effective.