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Originally Posted by russtcc
If net neutrality means one size fits all for bandwidth and everyone pays the same price that will never work, but it does sound like Obamacare. Investment in facilities will dry up. If you use more bandwidth you should pay more. If you use a lot of bandwidth you may get a lower cost per gig like companies that use lots of electricity pay a lower rate per kilowatt than I do. I don't have a problem with that.
Nothing is free to use or provide. If you want more speed from Comcast upgrade. Why should I pay more for you to have more bandwidth? Depending on the equipment used in a neighborhood there is a maximum speed available on the local loop. If 10 homes use up the majority of the bandwidth and the company has to upgrade its equipment who should pay for that? Everyone or those who are causing the need? I've been in the telecommunications industry since 1970. This is typical government thinking of fixing a problem that doesn't exist. If you are paying for an amount of bandwidth and not getting it you have a right to complain and get it corrected. But don't ask your neighbors to bear the cost of you wanting more speed for free.
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You should read about Net Neutrality!
Your comments lead me to believe you do not understand it.
The way I understand it, the consumer could have unlimited bandwidth and it would not help!
Net Neutrality is about the content providers (e.g., web sites)!
More specifically about new startup companies that innovate and create new internet services!
The bigger picture is that the phone and cable companies are also selling content too (e.g., Pay TV Bundles). They might use their control of the infrastructure to disadvantage thier existing competition... and new competition (startups)!
Those content companies (i.e., Web sites), the web sites we access, already have fast internet services on their end and they pay for it!
Your phone and cable company want you to pay them
and now... they want the other content companies (web sites), that you try to access, to pay them too (think of it as a toll fee the content provider will have to pay to keep the phone company from slowing down their response to your request). If a content provider does not pay the toll, they will put the content providers response back to you in the so called "Slow Lane". IOW, you will not like the experience because it will be slow... even if you, a customer, bought maximum bandwidth from your internet company!
So... there is concern that it will be both anti-competitive and depress innovation!
In the end, many fear, it will lead to higher cost to consumers and less choices since there could be fewer new startup companies! Many of those startups begin on a shoestring budget!
Economist call it; "A Barrier to Entry". Basically... putting up obstacles for new competition!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry