I agree, we need an option to "register" an idle Service Bus connection that we aren't charged for.

Here is the use case summary of that MSDN link: Consider the situation where the SB is used as a support lifeline for a distributed application installed on 10,000 PC's. As it stands today I only have the option to create an idle connection with the service bus. I could invent a workaround by creating a HTTP polling mechanism to ask the server if the Service Bus should be activated... and then write the code to activate the SB connection. Considering that this is a service of considerable scale, I'd like MSFT to apply thier knowledge of how to achieve this with efficency in mind.

I would be excited to see something like this surface as an option within the AppFabric SDK.... although I'd be equally interested to see an implementation (whitepaper, blog, etc) for the current version.