If the pay-for-use you mean is "data caps", I think the reason a lot of people are fully against the idea is because historically they've been unreasonable. Lik

If the pay-for-use you mean is "data caps", I think the reason a lot of people are fully against the idea is because historically they've been unreasonable. Like if your water was charged at a dollar a gallon. Because there's just one provider. To continue the analogy, people had "unlimited" water before, and they might use 10, or 100, or 400 gallons in a month, they're not really sure. And then TWC applies a cap of 60 gallons and wants double the money if you want 100 gallons. If you hit 200 gallons before for some reason, forget it. No one in your area is offering you that. So people said "what's this caps, screw caps, no more caps!" because they were crazy caps, and you couldn't just pay a roughly linear rate for more data. Comcast used to have a 250GB cap, which is more reasonable. But it's flat, for all consumer tiers. And you can't pay less for 100GB or a bit more for 270GB. And various companies at various times have had "unofficial" caps. I think pay-per-gig-used could be reasonable, but I understand why many people are dead against it, so far it's only been a way to screw them.