Re: Net Neutrality and Your Internet Bill
"Karl" <[email protected]>
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Yes, but they face the limits of the free market when they do. But if everyone is doing it, well, they all win and we all lose. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 9:05 AM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Net Neutrality and Your Internet Bill On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Johne Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > At its simplest, network neutrality is the principle that all Internet > traffic should be treated equally. Yes. So I can't bill extra for your Netflix traffic. But I *can* bill you extra for *everything* over a specified data cap. I'm not sure if the original author got it right. I don't think Internet providers need "authorization [...] to meter net usage and charge more to those who move more data". They can do that now. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot