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Originally Posted by JourneyOfLife
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! Barriers to entry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
your explanation tracks with other articles. One example is the dispute between HBO and comcast. HBO wants to independently stream their broadcast. Comcast was against it but as it turns out HBO will still charge $15 for its independent streaming. Silicon Valley is in favor of net neutrality
But in my view the last thing we need is more government regulation and especially to the depth that FCC wants to go