Say goodbye to the Internets.

Here is yet another article about how ISPs are beginning to cap how much data you get to download every month. I love how they are portraying 5% of their customers as horrible bandwidth hogs that are ruining it for everyone else. I'm sorry but you are the ones that have spent the last decade selling your service as "Unlimited" and not expanding your network to actually deliver that service.

Why not just charge an extra $20 a month for true unlimited bandwidth instead of charging $1 per gigabyte over a certain limit? Because that way they get to make a ton of money off of people that stray over the limit occasionally or unknowingly. It's just like the bad old days of horribly limited cell phone plans and roaming charges. Do you realize that if you have a unsecured wireless router it would be very easy for your neighbors to use your WiFi to rack up MASSIVE bandwidth bills? And, if you are actually getting LESS service from them are they not DROPPING the price for the base packages? Talk about getting screwed, you're paying $45 per month now for a service that has no limits and they want you to pay $45 a month for a service that only delivers 50Gb per month. That's just wrong. If Comcast does this in my area then they can kiss the $180 a month they get from me for cable, phone and internet goodbye....and you should do the same.

Hopefully this will spark the return of "boutique" ISPs that will continue to charge flat rates and deliver service with no caps.