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In reply to the discussion: WOW, I never saw THIS coming: "Verizon CEO Wants To Charge You More If You Use Too Much Internet" [View all]Blue_Adept
(6,499 posts)You can expect it to impact membership on Netflix as people opt out of using it entirely - I know I would - just to ensure you don't hit the caps and pay higher rates.
There's a slew of smaller video services out there that get impacted as well that do streaming. You'll become choosier with what you watch or just drop it entirely. For those that do a lot of work from home, they'll likely stop doing a lot of it as well since transfering large files between home and office will impact home use, so on and so forth.
I'd pretty much be done with streaming when it happens since a good chunk of my day involves it for work purposes. I'll redirect my efforts elsewhere which means smaller companies lose my business.
Then you add in cutdowns on youtube usage, porn viewing, gaming, music streaming and so on.