>>> Well, I hope you're right and everything, but I'm not feeling too
>>> optimistic at this moment. Google clearly is, though. Saying that in 7
>>> years' time the rates for 10mbit/sec "will be $0"? That's fighting talk
>>> where I'm from. ;-)
>>
>> It sounds like the predictions of electricity becoming, "too cheap to meter."
>> Things don't seem to have worked out quite like that.
>
> well, nowadays we have so much more electrical appliances around in the house
> than people in the 50's, say, and yet I'm sure we don't need to be millionaires
> to afford such extravaganza...

Yeah. I think the idea is that 5mbit/sec will be free, because everybody 
will be paying money for multiple *gigabits* per second, so nobody will 
care about mere megabits any more...

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