Quote Originally Posted by 'valkry',index.php?page=Thread&postID=130592#post1 30592
The point is though, that originally there had been a limit put on that bridge, and the guy with the buses was under it, now you are restricting the limit even more by going back on the original deal.
It's that kind of attitude that has lead to a number of different abuses on, say, Wall Street, although it's entirely applicable in many other situations. The deregulation of 1999 that allowed banks to leverage capital in risky ways was taken as de rigeur with the consequences now glaringly obvious.

I guess companies will now always have to assume their customers will abuse whatever privileges they are allowed, and act accordingly.

And for what it's worth, I was recently hit with this type of cap with my 3G EVDO modem from Verizon. They used to have no cap for monthly data usage and they switched it to a low usage and high usage plan, getting rid of any type of unlimited plan. I unfortunately only found this out after receiving my first bill (after my account had been set automatically to a low usage plan) and I ended getting stuck with a $400 bill (their low usage plan is something paltry like 250 MB a month, and the high limit plan is a more reasonable 5 GB a month). I was so angry that I nearly cancelled my plan completely, but I talked to a CSR for Verizon who changed my plan and made it retroactive to the current month (couldn't do anything for the month that was already billed, but as I was already over limit for the current month, it saved me money anyways).

This provided me the impetus to have a cable modem put into my office, as I did not want to have to worry about data limits. I don't download much but I'll sometimes patch WoW on the notebook computer at work, or download software patches that can be sizeable.