Re: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

This article offers some interesting points.

 

It also shows how long this debate has been churning.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801
508.html

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Bruce Geerdes
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:47 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

 

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:

Are you assuming that you will be billed only for access, and Netflix will
be free?

 

I don't follow.

 

To answer though, I hate the thought of any kind of consumer bandwith
charge.  I made sense when the infrastructure was struggling, but not any
more.

 

Net neutrality doesn't speak to whether we'll have metered billing or not.
But it says that if we *do* have metered billing, ISPs can't single out
sources like Netflix or Youtube for better or worse pricing.

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