As traffic increases, experts say ISPs may start charging by the gigabyte, limiting use of some services and snooping at the data passing through their networks.Consumers using an expanding array of broadband services, including movie downloads, video games, online backup, and streaming audio and video, are flooding the nation’s broadband pipes with data–and it could cost them.Consumer advocates say that it’s only a matter of time before average high-speed Internet users get slapped with the label “hog.”Craig Aaron, spokesperson for SavetheInternet.com, worries that Internet users may soon be charged extra for using “too much” bandwidth or cut off from using some bandwidth-hungry software applications.
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