Pay Per Use Internet

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Pay per use internet is just around the corner. A major Canadian carrier and internet supplier had one of it's executive conference calls leaked to the press. In the recording an executive is heard to say "We feel consumers are not only ready for pay per use billing, but we're sure customers are in agreement that people should pay for what they use." There have been rumors flying around the industry about pay per use billing for quite some time. It's been as if all the major North American cable or internet providers are each waiting for the other to implement pay per use billing first. They all fear possible consumer back lash and simply put nobody wants to be the first out of the gate on this one.

Most people, when asked, object to pay per use billing. The model has been rejected by consumers for other brands and services as well. If internet providers start charging customers to use the and/or connect to the internet, this will spawn the development of a "free-net". Maybe the large internet providers fail to realize that are many ways of transmitting data. It is more likely though, that these large companies do in fact know that an underground internet would emerge. In a lot of very large marketing firms, behind closed doors, people are quietly studying ways to manipulate and take advantage of what could possibly become a whole new marketing niche to play in.Just in case this new internet takes shape.

Is it that far fetched?
"Not at all," says Humphries Davies, senior analyst at The Cedar Corporation, a secretive highly technical network architecture company that serves mainly government contracts. " Pay per use billing will just ignite the ire so to speak of the hacker community. I would imagine that not very long after companies start to implement the new billing system we'll start to see the seeds of the "new internet" sprout and take shape." When asked exactly how somebody could set up their own internet Humphries responded; " With the proliferation of hand held devices that have more and more power and capabilities, you could almost set one up now. Phones and pad devices are always open to hacking and that won't stop anytime soon. You could even use packet radio, using conversion software that ran on a hacked iPhone with regionally hidden signal boosters and repeating stations to relay data across the new network."

As of now pay per use billing hasn't been implemented anywhere yet. But experts and analysts all agree that it is just a matter of time before a major player needs to make the switch to pay per use billing in order to serve the companies bottom line. That of course being profit for the company.

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