I could see this costing the communication companies a lot of customers. I can promise you I want be paying to view amazon, ebay or any other site. Made it just fine for years without them. Have no problem doing it again.
I could see this costing the communication companies a lot of customers. I can promise you I want be paying to view amazon, ebay or any other site. Made it just fine for years without them. Have no problem doing it again.
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Net neutrality is a relatively new thing and was implemented to solve a problem that didn't exist. The innernets did fine before it and will continue to do fine after.
I knew that old CB was going to be handy again one day.
Created in '15 by B-rock and his crowd so big innernets users wouldn't be forced to pay more for their lopsided use of bandwidth. It is and was a regulation created as a political favor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_ne..._United_States
as long as free market, competition and greed exist........the internet will stay cheap for you and I
That was just the latest policy. The FCC has always supported neutrality and supported some cases against isp's well before 2015. This is the first time the FCC has said they don't care about neutrality and opened the gates for ISP's to do as they want. It will start small with things like Verizon giving their apps and services preference or AT&T making direct tv faster than anything else. But eventually it could lead to issues with ISP's choking out their competition. But those cases will be challenged and chances are the FCC will support them on it.
With 4g and cell towers, there will be alot more competition and people won't be stuck to one provider. I agree that it won't be some sudden change where we have to pay for sites. But it does open the door for some interesting monopoly issues.
Because it's not something they control. The users who utilize the data to watch shows via Netflix already pay for the data required to access the shows. Would you want to be charged more to have a webpage all because a bunch of people started clicking on your website one day? Remember...the fact that people are utilizing these sites doesn't exactly mean it's generating money for them either.
Exactly. As customers we are paying for access to the internet. And we pay for the speed of the service we want. What we choose to use that access for is none of their business.
If the ISP's want to charge Netflix they will just pass it on to us. And this won't hurt Netflix. But it will severely hurt the next Netflix.
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pay per click websites are nothing new- many small businesses pay by the click for their web pages- my site is normally top of the page for every category of work that we do, and pay per click turned out to be the most affordable way to have it. I get calls every day from somebody wanting to take over our website maintenance and advertising and none of them have beat what I have.
You pay your ISP for internet access. That in no way gives you full access to every website and content out there. That is up for the owners of the site to decide. Most are free but come with annoying pop up ads and banners from site sponsors. Others that stream content like netflix, hulu and amazon provide a service for a fee. Should their fees rise because of their bandwidth use then so shall their subscription fees. You, as a currently free American, can tell them to pound sand and you aren't going to pay it if you so choose. The free sites will either adjust their business model or up their ad space pricing. Either way it's still up to you to decide whether or not you want to go there. What will happen is the free market will take over and I doubt you'll notice little to any change whatsoever.
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