said by KrK:There's a meter running, and they already DO pay. These telecomm execs are just getting greedy; They want them to pay again to fund their infrastructure costs.
They pay for their bandwidth to their connectivity providers.
We pay for bandwidth to our connectivity providers.
The problem is that the amount of bandwidth we are consuming is skyrocketing compared with the bandwidth we have been paying for, and the consumer will not pay a lot more and the price of bandwidth is not coming down sufficiently. So, it comes down to who will pay ?
The ISPs are saying that the consumer won't pay for the additional bandwidth costs, so we'll make the information providers pay.
There is some logic in this except you know that's gonna bounce back as fees to the user. Like a $5 per month access fee to google to your hearts content, or a $10 per month access fee to youtube etc. The costs to the consumer will far exceed the cost of paying the ISP for the bandwidth.
Yes, the info providers are paying for bandwidth to distribute the information. They pay to get it onto the internet, not for us to retrieve it from the internet. That's our fee to our ISP.
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