Sorry, but in today's world, that kind of pricing is all part of the "free market". And a "free market" is what was desired when they took away regulation. If you don't like these kinds of pricing plans, you need to go back to a regulated world. You can't have it both ways.
A free market means someone can charge what the market will bear to maximize his profits.
In other words, if you want some coast-to-coast airline flights to cost $39, you'll have to accept certain other flights, perhaps even within a single state, will cost $750.
Elsewhere (in a discussion of Metroliner telephone service), someone claimed Verizon's stock price has steeply fallen. I presume that's true, and that is what free markets do. The NYT said recently Verizon was installing FIOS like crazy to stem a flow of lost customers.
The great and powerful AT&T doesn't even exist anymore except in name. Free markets at work.
If the telcos price themselves too high, c> If you want a largescale nationwide network to handle realtime data
All very true.
Sooner or later people must realize the Internet wasn't built for a lot of things, like security and safety.
Automobiles and highways weren't built for safety. It took 50 years before they even realized this, and 25 more years to design, build, and implement various safety features to cut down the carnage.