Your ISP Is Screwing You: As Your Service Costs Go Up, Their Backbone Costs Go Down | TechCrunch

Basically, ISPs claim our data usage is going up and they must react. In reality, their costs are falling and this is a dodge, an effort to get us to pay more for services that were overpriced from day one.

Basically, they’re quietly raising our rates while pretending to prevent a tragedy of the commons.

Don't get me wrong, I fully support profit and free enterprise--we definitely don't want the government regulating our Internet--but isn't this where the free market, supply and demand is supposed to kick in? What's that you say? Collusion? Nooo, couldn't be.