A while back I suggested ADSL plans with soft caps, falling to rate-limited
plans once you exceed a given limit, and someone said this was impossible to
do for technical reasons. This is recently been discussed on the vuln-dev
list, where someone said:

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Telcos in .au are starting to introduce plans (optus@home cable, iinet
adsl etc) whereby you get a monthly cap that's soft; at the time the cap
is reached, the rate is limited (either severely or lightly, depending
on the quality of the plan) and no excess data charges are inflicted
upon the user.

This technology is definately possible, and the plans look extremely
inviting because of this. Especially since a growing number of them are
also allowing the running of services (previously almost unheard of on
flat rate plans.).

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There were followups saying it was being done in the US as well. Are they
using different technology than here, or was the "technical reasons" thing
just a convenient excuse?

Peter.

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