[citation][nom]rodney_ws[/nom]Here's my problem with Verizon (my phone company) ... they want to charge us two ways. First they charge you XXX for 5 GB of monthly data. Now to me this seems relatively fair, but then in order to tether your phone to a laptop they'll charge you another $20. Now in all fairness you do get 2 extra GB of download, but what the crap? If I'm paying for 5 GB of month I should be able to do with it as I please. If I want to browse over to Facebook and just hit the refresh button 18,762,095 times then I should be allowed to do that right up to my bandwidth cap. What I do with my bandwidth is MY business. Not theirs.[/citation]
True, its bad enough some companies sell you an "unlimited" plan and then cut you off when you hit their hidden limit, but to already sell someone 5GB, and then tell them it costs extra to access that 5GB, through your phone, with another device is absurd. Imagine buying a gallon of milk, but paying an extra 50-cent surcharge because you planned to drink it out of a glass instead of straight from the carton, and they didn't even provide the glass. No, we wouldn't stand for it, not one bit.
As for this monitoring system, maybe it won't fly under the new FCC rules, but those rules only apply to we Americans. People in other countries are surely screwed, especially in countries like Australia and France where they've already ruled that ISPs are responsible for the content they deliver, and thus have to filter out what the government doesn't like (mostly copyright violations, but who knows what in the future). This software is surely promoted under the guise of conforming to copyright and other law, but in the end will also be used to pry extra money from unsuspecting consumers.
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