Regardless of the FCC’s final outcome on network neutrality some form of usage-based billing may not be such a bad thing.

For example, as a result of being situated next to one of the world’s largest fresh water lakes, the city of Chicago offers an un-metered water service and flat-rate billing based upon the size of your house.
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On September 21, 2009, The US Federal Communications Commission chairman, Julius Genachowski, gave a speech in which he outlined two new principles to augment the “Four Freedoms” originally articulated in 2004 by then chairman Michael Powell. The fifth principle is one of non-discrimination — stating that broadband providers cannot discriminate against particular Internet content or applications. An implicit assumption is present in this principle (and in the speech as a whole) that discrimination is a bad thing.
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In August 2009, the upstream provider of thepiratebay was forced to disconnect the popular tracker site. Now, this is one of many tracker sites (but a popular one). What effect would this have on Bittorrent globally? Sandvine did a short analysis and concluded that the effect was quite noticeable, a ~15-20% drop in overall bandwidth. You can read more detail [here], but the interesting thing is: bandwidth and applications are fickle and unstable. One applications 20% drop could be just as easily a 50% increase in another. When you are talking about the overall top applications, this can significantly skew the quality of experience and capital requirements for a broadband service provider.