BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | reply to Sammer
Re: Another Reason ISPs Should be Dumb Pipes Yeah. What the hell on a pogo stick are these companies so afraid of? Bandwidth is (or sure as hell should be) a utility.
Does your natural gas supplier freak out and start "sniffing" (pun intended) your home to find usage patterns (stove v. hot water heater; wok cooking versus barbecue) because they're desperate to somehow twist more money out of their relationship with you?
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 swhx7Premium
join:2006-07-23
Elbonia | said by B:Does your natural gas supplier freak out and start "sniffing" (pun intended) your home to find usage patterns (stove v. hot water heater; wok cooking versus barbecue) because they're desperate to somehow twist more money out of their relationship with you? They would if they could find a way, and weren't regulated as a public utility.
said by B:Bandwidth is (or sure as hell should be) a utility. Agreed. But the only way this can happen is legislation. There will be more and more abuses as long as ISPs are unregulated monopolies or oligopolies. |
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