A fun/interesting pro tip about our friends at the cable companies. And artists formerly known as RBOCs to a certain degree. You can get 100mbps in your home from Comcast for a mere $200 a month. However with their 250gig transfer cap, you could burn through that in 6 hours at 100mbps. The real punchline: Comcast's bandwidth costs are well under one cent per gig of transfer. They peer with folks like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo so essentially all they pay for is the wire.
So to recap, Comcast charges you up to $200 for as little as $2.50 worth of product, and they want to cry about subsidizing Hulu and Netflix.
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I am going to take a shot and say infrastructure costs are not included in your .01 cost. This is the same argument people make against drug companies, they say it only cost pennies to produce those pills completely ignoring all the investment it took to get that drug to market before they can sell pill #1. Laying cable is the expensive part and that has to be done before the bandwidth can be sold. No profit no new cable so you can download your porn and ever increasing speeds.
Bottom line is the Govt fucks up everything it touches so it should not be in the business of telling internet or any other companies how to run their business. These kinds of rules always end up causing higher prices and crappier service in the long run.