webwat: I doubt you would be buying the data usage as 1TB or whatever, its usually sold as bandwidth/speed instead of throughput. If you do setup a connection and router to support only 1Mbps from a single machine with an optimised TCP "receive window" then you could theoretically download 2.5TB i8n a month from a similarly optimised USA server, and it might cost over $100 or $200 with a service level agreement for jitter or CIR. Aggregating 1000s of users and paying Telecom to deliver the traffic is a different story. Will be good to see some new business models come from competition on both the local loop and international links.