Chris

That's the whole problem. The internet in its very essence is an utterly democratic, international entity. The Internet is not a commercial service you pay for, like Sky Movies.

Unless you have the It resources yourself, you have to pay someone else in order to get access to the Internet. But paying someone for access to the 'net is not the same thing as paying for the 'net. The Internet is free.

Now, I'm not such an idealist that I think we should get BB access to the internet for nothing, and I know that ntl has a business to run. All I think we're saying here is that ntl should do business and provide services in a way that respects the internet.

Unmetered access respects the spirit of the internet - free, democratic, knows no boundaries or borders - while pay-per-byte or pay-per-minute attempts to turn the internet into a commodity to be retailed to a mass market by ntl and others.