Net Neutrality: What's your opinion?
"Opinions are like --------. Everybody's got one."
http://savetheinternet.com/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonam...net/index.html
Real quick.
After reading some of this stuff it always comes back to one thing.
MONEY.
Somebody looking to make a buck.
Time's Yours...
http://savetheinternet.com/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonam...net/index.html
Real quick.
After reading some of this stuff it always comes back to one thing.
MONEY.
Somebody looking to make a buck.
Time's Yours...
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"Opinions are like --------. Everybody's got one."
http://savetheinternet.com/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonam...net/index.html
Real quick.
After reading some of this stuff it always comes back to one thing.
MONEY.
Somebody looking to make a buck.
Time's Yours...
I want the internet to remain neutral.
I never understood why can't internet access be metered like all my other utilities are (e.g., phone, gas, water, electric)?
Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.
Company spokesman Alex Dudley said the trial was aimed at improving the network performance by making it more costly for heavy users of large downloads. Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users of downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can account for up to 50 percent of network capacity.
Goodbye Internet. Thanks for all the Porn.
The market for internet access is progressing quickly enough that legislation or activism for "net neutrality" will quickly become superfluous in the developed world. In other words, consumer choice makes all this silliness go away. The existing anti-trust and anti-cartel legislation will be more than sufficient.
Not in rural areas. Around here, there is only one provider for dial-up and DSL, and Cable/High Speed is not available. If they were to start enacting restrictions such as would be banned by net neutrality, we couldn't do anything about it. Anti-trust legislation doesn't stop natural monopolies, so that wouldn't help anything.
The lowest end will be very slightly cheaper than the current "unlimited" service and it will just scale up exoribitantly from there.
WONDERFUL!
Let me guess how Time Warner will do this.
The lowest end will be very slightly cheaper than the current "unlimited" service and it will just scale up exoribitantly from there.
WONDERFUL!
The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a ]trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers* tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.
* N00b Internet Customers. They won't have a clue what they're getting into. PROFIT!
Not in rural areas. Around here, there is only one provider for dial-up and DSL, and Cable/High Speed is not available. If they were to start enacting restrictions such as would be banned by net neutrality, we couldn't do anything about it. Anti-trust legislation doesn't stop natural monopolies, so that wouldn't help anything.
No one is forcing you to live in a rural area.