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Re: Can you hear me now? said by rideboarder:said by sommerfeld:How is this significantly different from the cableco's using the bulk of the bandwidth on their coax infrastructure for a mix of analog and digital video? It's exactly the same thing. All the main ISP companies have built their own fiber nets(not the ones shared with all others(Level3, Cogent, UUnet, etc). And they built those to deliver their own content at high QOS standards for VOIP, videos, etc. All they are asking is that if others want to ride on the limited access private turnpike instead of the public highway that they kick in a fee.
And if a law prevents that, then the costs to their users are going to rise. So the end user is going to pay more no matter what. Either to the content providers or to the network providers.
But we have 2 classes of users - those who will use these new bandwidth intensive apps and those who won't. Under the content providers pay model, only the intensive users will pay. Under the network providers pay model, everyone pays - even those who only do email and regular browsing. The content providers pay model is fairer to the majority of the users. Though the biggest heaviest users will complain when they have to carry more of the costs they are causing.
Maybe the network providers(ISPs) will have to move to a bytes/mo model instead of flat rates. That way the content providers won't pay extra and the end users will pay based upon how much bandwidth they consume.
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join:2003-01-19 | This gets back to the questions of advertisers. Right now, advertisers are piggybacking on a lot of traffic. But if users suddenly start paying per byte (or some rougher equiv such as tiers), users are going to NOT want to pay for all the freeloading advertisements.
On the other hand, the google model makes advertising intrinsic to the product. It is hard to see how this will play out. | |
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