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Originally Posted by otipoby
To be honest, not everyone wants to use the internet the same. My parents, for example, do not have the internet. If their phone provider offered a cheap (maybe free) package that had limitations on where they could go, but allowed email, they might take it.
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Think about it like cable TV: I think many of us would like to be 100% a-la-carte in terms of which channels we want (I know I would!) but the cable companies insist on selling everything in "tiers" and "bundles". I really can't see them offering something cheap like that - up here in Canada at least, the cheaper packages still "go" everywhere, but they throttle back the speeds to 1mbps - which is pretty bad for any sort of media streaming, including Flash-heavy sites - and still charge $31 CAD/month for it.