If you consume water, you don't pay support ticket, you pay liters of water.
Depends on where you live - that's not the case in all locations or all countries - in the UK most people pay a flat *minimal* fee for their water (mine is £114/year) no matter how much you "consume"
IPs, PI, PA, AS are public resources
In your opinion.
Most of big operators ask to end users something like
Connectivity is not the only valid use of IP addresses, all those things you're connecting *to* need them - your "under construction" webpage is on a machine with an ip ... The post office don’t charge for a postcode (necessary to deliver your mail in most countries) and the is a finite number of those - they make their money to pay for the database management of postcode through other services which are *optional*. Rob