Pay as you go Internet Coming soon, What will you do?

The ones who are against this new plan aren't against it because they want the government to come in and interfere. They're against it because they think the ISPs are offering a crappier service. Nobody is saying anything about the government needing to do anything.

After reading what others who actually have those plans have said, I'm really not happy about it. If anyone knows of any ISPs that aren't going to use stupid plan, PLEASE let me know.

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I don't mind the "pay as you go" aspect, as long as it is reasonable and not rape. Unfortunately, big telecom corps will rape though. That's not the darkest side of this agenda though. The dark side is that these same companies want to shut down the internet completely, and force us all on to internet 2. What will happen is an old trick in the new battle-space of the web. They will do a false flag cyber terror attack that will shut down the web.

Remember "Problem - Reaction - Solution" ? Well, they'll create the problem of an overloaded web by not upgrading and expanding servers, to cause the reaction of a web crash and an "OMFG!" from the people, and then have the web 2.0 ready to go as the solution. Unfortunately, the telecoms will charge more for access outside their networks, making it more costly to get access to alternative media web sites, and they'll even go so far as to block certain sites too.

Australia has only ever known charge by the byte and it sucks but it has not ground us to a halt by any stretch of the imagination.. The problem is this. There is no inherent value in a byte. However how quickly I get that byte is important.
Charging by access speed is a much better idea.

If the telcos try to restrict access watch wireless boom and independent networks blossom. TCP/IP was designed so all computers are equal. If they wreck it we build a new one or go around them. Plenty of the downstream ISPs would be livid.

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Everything else is charged according to usage. Why should I have to pay the same as someone downloading movies and doing business and taking up bandwidth? I know Verizon FIOS has 2 plans to choose from depending on how much speed you need/want. What's wrong with that?

first they make you commit for a 18 month contract and then you have to pay for the equipment about 500-600 dollars then,they limit your use to only 750 mbs of download per day(not even enough to watch a full length movie)
tech support is a nightmare conversation with some shmuck from india that can barely talk english. the only time you get the speed you pay for is early in the morning till the afternoon . when the kiddies come home from school the service slows down dramatically . and i mean really bad, almost slower than dialup. forget watching youtube at that time of day unless you like to wait. also thier satellites are also used for military purposes. i wouldnt doubt it if this was used to spy on citizens too. all for the outragous price of 69 bucks a month!. believe me, when my contract was done, i dumped them quick and got a local service that was 10 times better for half the price and no charge for the equipment and unlimited use of the internet. i can youtube all day long if i want.

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Been tried before in the 90s...didnt work then and wont work now. I think the internet providers should stop whining so much. They are lucky we even pay for internet now, yet they want to squeeze every penny they can from us.

It inefficient for low usage customers to have to subsidize high usage customers. This is the progress of capitalism ..ever increasing efficiency.

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The Internet is still in its infancy... video is just starting to be put into real use... far far too many companies are going to be using video for all kinds of inovative things above and beyond YouTube type websites and they wont tolerate making people pay to get these services / video ads ... when we all know it costs virtually nothing to deliver them... these ISPs will lose lots and lots of money due to competition taking away their subscribers... AT&T has already prove they are stupid by helping Bush Inc spy on us all ...but other companies have proven they "get it" and wont go down this road... what will happen is people that set themselves up as major hubs for things like LimeWire will get thottled and the rest of us will not have to pay for their over use.

Look into FIOS or Japans Internet infrastructure... what we have in the USA is a JOKE today... The capacity is going to go way way up over the next few years and what is considered over use today will not be all that much tomorrow.

Does anyone know what ISPs are good to get? I've heard Earthlink is good. They have spoken out for net neutrality. They've hooked up Seattle and some parts of Texas with free wi-fi but they're not in my area unless I want to pay $600 for satellite.

...like I've done all my life. Seems perfectly fair and equitable to me.

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There will *always* be a market for unrestricted bandwidth, and there will be those willing to pay for that access.

Those who are particularly computer savvy (which is likely the same demographic who is particularly desiring of greater bandwidth) will most likely just route around the whole mess, as they've always done. Long before the net was "The Information Superhighway" (remember that name? It seems quaint, now!), there were bulletin boards and all sorts of ways of communicating without the benefit of websites such as we know and love today.

Where there's a will (and a market), there's a way.

Hopefully a LLC I am invested in will be bought soon and the technology will get rid or help with the problem of large files.

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