Rental businesses have come up with temporary blackout dates and adding extra charges for peak times.

租赁业务提出了在高峰期暂停服务，或者增加额外费用的解决办法。

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Critics also say that punitive charges at peak times could affect the poorest families disproportionately, because they already use power only when it is essential.

评论家们也声称，用电高峰期的惩罚性的收费会给最贫困的家庭造成影响更为巨大，因为他们只有在必要时才会使用电能。

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Telephone charges are lower during off-peak periods.

在非繁忙时，电话收费较低。

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Again, it would be better to have flat monthly charges based on peak speeds of always-on service plus packet charges for traffic actually carried.

CNN: OPINION: The push is on to deploy high-speed, always-on residential Internet access