Wallstrip's Julie Alexandra talks about the impending struggle for bandwidth freedom as Internet providers consider charging users for heavy Web use. Watch below:
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I survived a long time without the internet.
I've never used the internet at all. Not once.
You should run for President.
Not a single internet provider has suggested reducing rates for those who use very little bandwidth.
In their thinking, those who don't use their services but pay full price are paying for the potential. And those who fully use their services - are somehow being naughty, and should be punished.
They only want your money, as much of it as they can get away with.
how fast can you say "cancel my account."?
ITA!
Is this just for residential use or business customers as well?
WiFi access should be free on a municipal level. And fast like Japan where it costs about $30-$35 for service that's ten times faster than here: 200 mbps. AND IN THE G.D. 21ST C!!!!@!!
This plan disadvantages those with disabilities.
My city tried to bring in a wireless wifi network, but at the following city council meeting, Bellsouth and Cox Cable showed up with LOTS of lawyers threatening legal action if they proceeded with this radical idea.
And people say Unions are bad, lol, they're wimps compared to a 747 full of corporate lawyers.
Another way to turn the Internet into Television, don't fall for it guys!
One more way for corporate America to nickel and dime us. This country is truly run by corporations. There is such a false sense of freedom in this country it is not even funny.
They will if you let them.
Who is going to reign them in? They are only getting richer and more powerful with each passing year.
This sucks. Even if the ISPs offer tiered plans, the unlimited plans will cost MORE than we currently pay. I bet what we currently pay will be the lowest plan they will offer, and will impose bandwidth caps on our current plans. This allows them to squeeze more $ out of us who currently enjoy unlimited bandwidth.
America is turning into a 3rd world country because of the greedy monopolistic companies who are trying to get more $ for the same service without any added value. Japan & Europe are SOOOOOO far ahead of the US in Cell tech it's not even funny. That could never happen here, because companies have not competition or reason to innovate.
Worse. When in the dark ages somebody came up with high-quality recording tape, it not only cost more money but presto! there appeared a new and unprecedentedly crummy tape, sold at the old normal price. Normal decent tape, of course, rose in price. What we're paying now will be the lowest tier, but the quality will be worse than anybody's. 48kbs. Coming soon to a home around you.
In America we pay MORE for LESS service than any major industrial country in the WORLD!!!
Monolopy has given us crappy service and NO innovation with increasing pricing structure . . . moving along like cable TV and the MSN . . . grip and gouge the public while spreading the BS of "providing service" . . . .
"Third World" status indeed . . .
We would like to make more money. How can we do that?
flunkie- I know, charge for bandwidth!
Brilliant!
We = Chairmansagers
Flunkie = overpaid very-short-term thinking overpaid overrated CEO who gets overpaid a lot mulla to come up with stupid ideas as this one and 6 months later he walks away with a overpaid cool $100 million while company goes belly up and employees are out of jobs driving the country into a further recession/depression.
If you pay for unlimited bandwidth, it seems like a bit of a contract violation for them to suddenly impose a charge on customers. Perhaps if they offered cheaper plans with limited bandwidth while adding more expensive unlimited bandwidth plans, that might help quite a bit. As it is, most services charge the same amount to people who consume maybe 50 megabytes a month as they do for someone who consumes 4 gigabytes a month.
You'd think such limits would also impede the business model of all the media streaming companies, like Netflix, Blockbuster, Apple, etc. After all, if someone streams 10 movies in one month, something that doesn't seem all that irregular...that could exceed a bandwidth cap easily.
Read the fine print. Your "provider" can change the terms on you any time.
Bull-hockey
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