But they are NOT paid per megabyte delivered. The moment they start doing that customers complain even more (remember the Comcast 300G limit uproar). So chargi

But they are NOT paid per megabyte delivered. The moment they start doing that customers complain even more (remember the Comcast 300G limit uproar). So charging customers per MB is out and charging content providers per MB is out too. Providing crappy service or investing significant amounts of money and time is all that's left and considering the local monopolies, crappy service is what we get as that's the least amount of trouble for the providers.