You mentioned that :"pay-by-the-hour environments like Compuserve did manage to do well when their cost was low enough that people weren’t watching the clock so much." Pay per usage is a difficult bussiness. Charging wether people use or not is what i would like to expect if i was going to make money on a consumer/ provider level only. On a larger scale like wholesale, pay per usage helps more to make profit.

Ellie Drey
LongDistance-T1.com