The United States is so far behind the rest of the world, if we go to metered broadband, we might as well just shutter the store. Go back to agrarian living. Because there is no way a US worker with no health care and low-speed metered broadband can compete with workers even in many developing countries.

Broadband metering is the ultimate nickel and diming. Verizon or other broadband company may see their profits go up at first, but the entire economy will go down much more.