Belgacom Extrasurf

What the hell is Belgacom thinking? They’ve developped some new half-arsed concept called extrasurf for micropayments. When you reach a site that uses the system, you’re disconnected then reconnected to a special number where you’re billed differently depending on the services you have chosen. I can imagine the problems when you start disconnecting and reconnecting every time you want to pay for something. And how about if you’re on a cable connection? And if you’re running a Mac or Linux (It’s a window solution, of course) ? I can’t imagine the ISP’s will be very happy about their clients logging off and on every 10 minutes either. The bets are on, I predict failure within less than a year.