Hm. The no-limit limit on my broadband is (effectively) 500GB - above that is considered unfair and excessive.

Joe, the reason I'm asking you about charges for calls to and from your cellphones to other cell and landline phones is this: if you have people calling you from abroad, this may be possible for them if they're calling a landline, but expensive if they're calling a mobile. The same may apply to you. You can use services like Skype, but I think they can also be data hogs.

I'm always surprised that governments are not more gung-ho about spreading fibre broadband into rural areas. Surely it would be good for commerce, and ease the strain on cities, if people had the ability to do a significant amount of paid work using the internet without having to go into cities? (I have friends who work in journals, for instance, who live in the boonies and drive or get the train to the metropolis one or sometimes two days a week. They're saving their employers office space, and lessening the strain on the city infrastructure.)