It begins by announcing a data cap that’s set high enough to affect only a small percentage of current users who routinely hit it. Justify it by saying you’re only targeting the “hogs” who gobble up everybody else’s bandwidth. Say you’ll charge for data usage that exceeds that cap. Then sit back and wait.
Big Cable’s Sledgehammer Is Coming Down
Susan Crawford
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This is how our government works too. It makes sense to people because they think it’s fair to do things like tax people who make more a higher percentage (even if a flat rate would be more fair and even if they already are paying more because of volume).