The Register points out that life is about to get tough for ISPs.
What the Reg does not quite put its finger on is this: ISPs have been merrily selling customers ‘bandwidth’ that has been all but theoretical. Now they face the horrible prospect that people other than teens sharing illegal music are going to want to put that ADSL to full use. And unfortunately, they are renting the same bit of ‘pipe’ to hundreds of other people to.
Which is not to say that they are evil, bad or malicious, but just that it is a market where the prices have been low because of spare capacity in the network, and that someone had better start putting down more cable.