One of the hosting providers asked a question on MSDN forums that which licensing type would best suit their business, my reply to that question was marked as an answer, for complete thread kindly follow the link:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010general/thread/e0d17f04-4370-45ad-b1ac-0c69cc0d7085/#f5c2c646-7388-4aca-aaa1-45981cb55a40

So in this case when you would be going towards the licensing model, you will be opting for SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise / Standard) for Internet Users / Sites and hence after this you won’t be worrying about CALs as CALs are only for Internal Users for masses you can’t calculate CALs so a totally separate licensing scheme is given for this case especially applicable to Hosting Providers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=895A1DBA-0C3F-47A0-8D6D-163B50364335&displaylang=de&displaylang=en

Licensing Info: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Licensing-Details.aspx

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