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Re: Bandwidth Limits - All discussion here said by dadkins:Dude! LOL! Do you get charged like... water? Electricity? Gas? As in, by the unit? No! It is not a metered service. If it were, my bill would be about $6.35 per month.  No, it would not. CC would still charge the "base charge" of $42 or whatever they would call it and then charge you over limit. Same as some utility providers charging $whatever for a minimum of x gallons or whatever they sell and then charging by the unit over that limit.
There are variations of metered. Once there are numbers involved as usage, it IS metered, no matter how you would like it to describe it as not being in some Orwellian fashion.
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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If I called it a metered utility, I think we'd hear a cranial explosion from the general direction of Hercules, Calif.! 
Answer? Beats me. There's definitely a meter on it, but since you aren't charged extra and can't buy extra, and the 250 GB threshold is not a limit, I think there's an argument that it's not really a metered utility (er, um -- "service".
-- Robb the silly-tired airport-weary traveler
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| said by funchords:If I called it a metered utility, I think we'd hear a cranial explosion from the general direction of Hercules, Calif.! Answer? Beats me. There's definitely a meter on it, but since you aren't charged extra and can't buy extra, and the 250 GB threshold is not a limit, I think there's an argument that it's not really a metered utility (er, um -- "service". -- Robb the silly-tired airport-weary traveler One day when we meet, I will buy you a beer
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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Like I said, I couldn't care less either way.
Both y'all are wrong. 
I too would have to buy Robb a beer. 
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