Here in the US we are pretty lucky to have unlimited internet time. If you step outside of the US every company charges for bandwidth consumption. For a short period in my life I lived in Germany, while being there I had the luxery of using TMobile’s internet service. Well I decided to use it the way I always had in the US. At the end of the month, BAM!@, a huge bill for bandwidth consumption. I had pushed us over the limit and had to pay and extra $50 over our normal bill. Which sucked.

So lets fast forward to today. Not too long ago Gizmodo reported that a guy in Bend, Oregon was sent a bill by his new broadband company. Well it wasn’t a good thing. It seems this new broadband company in Oregon wants to charge for bandwidth instead of the flat rate we’re all used to. This is something big companies in the US are starting to play around with. Companies like Time Warner and Comcast want to impose these new rates and control how much we’re using the internet. All we can do for now is wait and hope that this doesn’t happen. How would you react to the new rates?