Here in Europe, where the telecom companies have been largely unchallenged (the introduction of competition is pretty much a farce) and unregulated, and we have the high metered local phone calls, they are already introducing prices per megabyte transferred on the new DSL and Cable modem services so as not to make them a cheap option to metered modems and isdn. The prices are ridiculous (try 5.5 cents per megabyte on a 2 mb/s line), but have to be so that they won't cost less much less than the phone call for joe-smoe-surfer-the-web.
hey, its not _that_ bad everywhere in europe. telederegulation is coming along quite well in sweden imho. and as for prices... i'm getting my cable access any day now, and for that i'll pay abaout 44 euro (which is about... $44) per month for.5-10 Mbps. flat rate.
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Here in Europe, where the telecom companies have been largely unchallenged (the introduction of competition is pretty much a farce) and unregulated, and we have the high metered local phone calls, they are already introducing prices per megabyte transferred on the new DSL and Cable modem services so as not to make them a cheap option to metered modems and isdn. The prices are ridiculous (try 5.5 cents per megabyte on a 2 mb/s line), but have to be so that they won't cost less much less than the phone call for joe-smoe-surfer-the-web.
.5-10 Mbps. flat rate.
hey, its not _that_ bad everywhere in europe. telederegulation is coming along quite well in sweden imho. and as for prices... i'm getting my cable access any day now, and for that i'll pay abaout 44 euro (which is about... $44) per month for