No Generic Connectivity

Telepocalypse muses about WiFi for commuters in trains, buses, etc. He thinks that a problem is the possible price-plans. People are spoiled by a flat-fee all-you-can-eat price-plan and that businesses are not able to introduce other price-plans.

I wonder whether this is a US problem? In France I see an incredible number of price-plans for Internet Access. In fact it gets similar to the Mobile business price-plans. I guess this is all good for business, but confusing for customers. As customers sign up anyway, they will probably lose a bit. But maybe it is good for business progress. I assume a flat-free price-plan gives only very low (or none) profits. And thus innovation will be stalled. Just a thought…