Broadband usage caps con't

We've looked before at how long "all you can eat" broadband subscriptions would survive.  And, we've seen that Comcast (and others) began experimenting in 2008 with charging by the Gigabyte.  Now, a new white paper has emerged that challenges the tenet that phone & cable companies should sequester their top 5% of users by charging them more.  The reason?  These "data hogs" might actually be performing a useful function by effectively serving as a "node" on the network.  

For more info, check out this link.

Will 2009 see the continued shift of Broadband to usage-based-pricing at the same time as Voice continues to slide to flat-rate?