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[Patrick Miller]

 > In the '80's, phone companies worrying about capacity problems because
> > people were using their phone lines for dial-up connections to BBSs, and
> > were staying on-line for hours at a time - longer, according to Bell, than
> > telephone conversations typically lasted.  They tried to impose either
> > metered use or higher rates for private data connections.  Southwestern Bell
> > tried to declare hobby BBSs "commercial", and require that they pay
> > commercial rates.  I was part of a group of BBS Operators that successfully
> > fought that move.  Other attempts to address the capacity problem by
> > penalizing users failed as well, as people could see that it was the same
> > thing as overbooking an airplane, then charging extra to the people who
> > actually showed up for the flight.
> In other words, you shouldn't pay to have access to the line, and then also 
> be charged to actually use it.
> -- 
> JD Runyan
> 		"You can't milk a point."

Flat rate per meg for all business or consumer. Unless you go to a cutrate
company.