[TheNewGirl]

I think if the caps don't increase they will.

Also have you thought about how it impacts businesses? For example at my office we have 10 terminals on one internet connection. Many businesses rely exclusively on online POS software and other internet related activities, as well as emailing (Often I have to send large PDFs to clients to get them their bills and billing details, I'm sure I can't be the only one). Also when people are conserving their internet usage they're less likely to do research about businesses online, which may very much hurt many businesses.

Furthermore, the caps are expected to tighten rather then expand over the years. Forcing people to subscribe to their other services (television and phone) rather then utilizing internet utilities like Skype and Netflix or watching network television online as younger users are rapidly canceling their long distance plans and their cable because they prefer the flexibility provided by these services.

Lastly. Hubs. With the caps in place, it will limit access in public places that were previously being given unlimited for free and other bulk buying customers who provide unrestricted access for their customers. Yes some places will be able to afford to absorb increased costs but when Starbucks needs to cut the bottom line and it's increase your coffee price and cut the free internet, don't bitch about it. Or when schools have to cut or seriously restrict their internet services because they can no longer provide the access they they have been allotted a budget for, don't bitch.

A lot of people, students especially, rely on free internet hubs not just for using their lap tops but for accessing their phone and tablet services. Reduction here will mean you 1. use more data, at the inflated wireless premiums that make them more money and 2. have to subscribe again to more services to gain access.

This will cost you money. And I think it's extremely short sighted to think about it simply in terms of 'Oh I don't use 100G a month now so this doesn't effect me' when we are moving towards an increasingly online mode dealing with the world that requires access to information always. 10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined a world where I would carry the internet around with me in my pocket all the time, where I would get email on the phone. I can't imagine what degree of access will be common place in 10 years from now but I assure you, the "caps" will not increase as rapidly as the demand will.

Once we allow the telecoms to charge these sorts of insanely inflated rates (and if we were talking a realistic margin on the delivery of overages on the cap I wouldn't care so much as I do), we won't be able to take it back and we set the standard for other utilities to set extremely inflated margins themselves. We also allow the telecoms (and government) to set a standard as to what degree of access to the media and essentially the world, that a typical person should have, allowing greater access only to those with greater wealth.

tl;dr - This is not about the right to watch U-Tube videos or play Farmville 24/7 nor is it even about individual users but rather about larger over reaching implications of the issue.