On 12/14/2010 09:15 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
An example of tiered Internet would be pay $10 more a month and get
full speed access to Facebook, or use some other site instead, favored
by Comcast, for the regular price. Same thing with the search engines.
Maybe Yahoo will get preferred treatment for the cheap price, and if
you want to use Google? Extra $15/month.
It would be interesting to see what would happen should an ISP decide to
try and extort Google. I'd imagine it would be companies with a bit less
leverage that this would be aimed at.
My impression was always that it would be the companies themselves that
the ISPs would try to deal with anyway. If you try and charge Marie-Sue
$5/month for faster Yahoo, she just won't pay it. So you go to Yahoo and
say "Nice business you have here. It would be a shame if someone were to
drop your packets on the floor"
I think such a model would quickly fail anyway for legal or financial
reasons. Where I can see it having more of an effect would be for ISPs
to block/hamper applications like Skype in order to try and sell you
their VOIP solution.
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