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The glorious days of an unlimited broadband appears to be nearing its end as ISPs look to implement caps and metered pricing for broadband services. In the not-so-distant-future, broadband users will be forced to pay on a metered basis in the same way as other utilities such as electricity and water, with customers only paying for what they use.

Partisan politics is being blamed for killing off US legislation to protect the "net neutrality" which claims to treat all web traffic equally.

Sprint Nextel has not ruled out a usage-based pricing model for its 4G wireless service, CEO Dan Hesse said on Wednesday.

The chief of the Internet's leading standards body stated that it is "misleading" for AT&T to claim that its push to charge customers for high-priority service is technically justified.

AT&T said that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to engage in "paid prioritization" of network traffic would be harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet.