This article is about the future of Internet billing. I discusses how, in the near future, large companies like Bell will start using a system called usage-based billing rates with a 15% decrease in initial cost. This is a type of billing in which you pay an amount that depends on how much you upload onto the Internet and how much you download from the Internet. For example, Rogers Extreme Internet plan has an allowance of 80 gigabytes per month at a cost of $60. If you go over this limit you have to pay an additional $1.50 per gigabyte. The last thing the article talks about is how much you could download or upload with only one gigabyte of space. With only one gigabyte you could download around 200 songs or 1.5 movies.
I think that there is an upside and a downside to usage-based billing. Because Bell would have to decrease their initial cost for plans it would save money for people who don't use the Internet excessively, but for those people who use the internet a lot, they could see a rise in price of their Internet access. Also, because the world, in general, is becoming more of an online place, people could find themselves using more and more gigabytes of information and data per month. This could result in more expensive internet access. This is why I think that it would be bad for consumers if Bell started using usage-based billing methods.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/31/f-faq-usage-based-billing.html
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