Posted on 05/06/2014 8:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am experiencing this
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Capacity costs money to build. Are the people using it paying for it, or is the cost being spread over all users including the low-bandwidth email users?
My personal opinion - use should be metered like electricity or gas - if you use a lot, you pay a lot. If you use a little, you pay a little. That way, the expenses are allocated properly.
Second the motion. I saw Comcast. And?
Oh my gosh! You sound like one of those filthy capitalists. The internet is a right, like free healthcare, abortions on demand, lifelong terms in office for politicians where they become millionaires.
There are no service levels on the Internet because those who need them for the conduct of their business are not allowed to pay extra for it and the ISP's are not allowed to offer it for sale.
If they could the tradition telephone and cable TV business would be dead overnight.
/johnny
I’ve definitely been getting more error messages lately. (The can’t connect to server type.)
- if you use a lot, you pay a lot. If you use a little, you pay a little.”
No, no you have that all wrong. In the new society those that can afford to pay a lot will be expected to do so so that those that don’t pay a lot can use a lot, too. /s/
The internet is a standard. You comply or you don’t. Telcos get paid by their customers for the bandwidth. The customers use the telco to access content, and the telcos cry that they don’t make enough. THE CUSTOMERS ARE PAYING FOR THE BANDWIDTH. It’s nothing more than the telcos complaining that they need to get payed for the info coming and going, it’s a shift from what has been done to date. It’s a shift from how the internet has existed to date. It’s the telcos trying to squeeze every last penny out of the internet, nothing more.
I’ll make you a deal, I’ll stop talking about net neutrality, if you start pushing against the monopolies in the internet industry. Are monopolies in line with you capitalist ideals? Why complain about Net neutrality, but not about monopolies?
Give people the choice, and some can pick to get shafted by these new consumer restrictions, and others can choose a telco that does things the way it’s always been done. Then let the market decide. Oh that’s right, we can’t, so we have the monopolies shafting customers by charging more and delivering less.
Pro-capitalism my hairy arse.
If you go to the Google Fiber map of the Kansas City area, there's a great big empty where Overland Park is, and Google has announced that there are no plans to install their high speed service in Overland Park. I've sent an email to the Overland Park city council saying if they pull the same crap with AT&T and their new high speed that AT&T is planning on bringing to the KC area, I will need to think about moving to another city.
Mark
The Monopolies are state sanctioned and dictated.
Even cooks know that.
/johnny
You forgot free smart phones for Holder’s people.
Bravo SengirV!!!!
In the vast majority of the country there is only 1 choice a person has if they want high-speed internet. In part of the country a person is lucky if they have 2-3 choices.
But telco’s are a strange animal. In the front door they compete for customers but in the back door they are friends and partners. Yes AT$T, Veri$ion, Comca$t & Time-Warner all have agreements on the backend about how much each will pay the other to leverage their networks and even how those networks will be operated.
MONOPOLIES, especially ones that lease government owned (aka owned by you and I) airwaves, do need oversight and regulation.
We have all discovered that in the 1980’s $3 a minute long distance rates were a scam. How much money did the telco’s steal from your parent’s back then? Long Distance eventually became “commoditized”. The Telco’s learned their lesson from that disaster. Mobile phone service and internet should go the way of Long-Distance... But that doesn’t happen. WHY not?
“Oh my gosh! You sound like one of those filthy capitalists. The internet is a right, like free healthcare, abortions on demand, lifelong terms in office for politicians where they become millionaires.”
Then explain to us why COMCAST is not cheating on the standard agreement by attempting to be paid twice for providing the same service as everyone else by using their government granted monopoly to fund the Democrats and Obama to maintain and extend that monopoly for political control.
I’m paying for 20 Mbps speed from AT&T. The other night watching an Amazon prime flick, the speed dropped from from 20 to 1.5 several times. It made the movie almost unwatchable as it stopped repeatedly.
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