Lately I think charging per bit is the simple solution for all of this. Amazon does this. It gives them a great inventive to have a good network. If they slo

Lately I think charging per bit is the simple solution for all of this. Amazon does this. It gives them a great inventive to have a good network. If they slow things down, then you might send less bits, so they would get less revenue. There are of course a few potential problems. From the ISP perspective they need some way to figure out how to handle the peak load. Possibly select a short window every day where bits cost more? For users the biggest risk is variability from month to month, although we all handle that just fine in our electricity and water bills. The other trick of course is that absent proper competition the cost per bit may not drop as fast as it should, but I would say the competition part is sort of an independent problem.