I was always a fan of a fixed cost to go towards the infrastructure and a variable cost based on network congestion.
On a phone, similar to seeing signal strength, you could see the current cost per min calculated by your location and current time.
People should be able to download stuff in off hours in what ever quantities they can. If there is a huge event that would normally overload the local towers, this would be a way of properly allocating network access to people who really need it.
It might take some time for people to get used to it, but a comparison to gas prices might be helpful.
On a phone, similar to seeing signal strength, you could see the current cost per min calculated by your location and current time.
People should be able to download stuff in off hours in what ever quantities they can. If there is a huge event that would normally overload the local towers, this would be a way of properly allocating network access to people who really need it.
It might take some time for people to get used to it, but a comparison to gas prices might be helpful.