Yeah data isn't electricity persay. If you had no growth in data consumption and you had built ample capacity then the variable cost of provisioning 1 kb a data is nothing. For electricity you had to use fuel and had to pay for line losses, not so with data if you assume the capacity is always there.
So it's a false analogy to compare data with other consumable utility provisioned goods like water and electricity.
Now, data is growing, and companies need to add new capacity so therefore people should be charged on their uplink bandwidth or on their peak consumption but that's considerable different from what ISP's like Bell proposed.
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