Companies that were forced to be creative could easily capture plenty of value from the heavy user without creating the undesired psychological consequence that people feel each minute online costs them money.
For instance a slight monthly fee for static ips, cloud services cached on your local router, ipv6 routers. Right now you can sometimes buy this stuff but not in the small monthly fee way that would rake in cash.
Besides, the problem with bandwidth caps is that without competition providers will charge far more than the extra bandwidth costs at a given time of day
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Companies that were forced to be creative could easily capture plenty of value from the heavy user without creating the undesired psychological consequence that people feel each minute online costs them money. For instance a slight monthly fee for static ips, cloud services cached on your local router, ipv6 routers. Right now you can sometimes buy this stuff but not in the small monthly fee way that would rake in cash. Besides, the problem with bandwidth caps is that without competition providers will charge far more than the extra bandwidth costs at a given time of day