| What these ISPs are really saying... We know the monthly fees that you customers have been paying us for many years now have been used to build, maintain, and improve our network--that those fees have effectively paid for our network to even exist, but even though our profits have been huge, we're not making enough money to pay for that fifth luxury car and that fourth house--in the south of France, so we want to start charging you more for your Internet access (even though the cost to transport those bytes across our network has actually decreased year by year--no, we're not giving out any rebates). We also don't want you using your Internet access to compete with our other offerings--TV/video and phone service. Why?... because we can (and you're stupid). |
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| This is not what they are saying... ISPs are simply finding that they are having multiple products that are conflicting with each other. why pay as much for tv if i can download the movie online? Now the more you pay the higher cap you will have. Just like if you added HBO to your package the more channels you will have to watch. |
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1 edit | I think you're a little confused as to which point of view you're trying to support. Your HBO analogy isn't even relevant. Now, if you added HBO at its flat rate and still had to pay for each movie you watch on one of the the HBO channels, then that would be analogous; with HBO you're paying for the content, not the delivery of the content.
Any customers willing to pay repeatedly for something they've already paid for pretty much deserve what they get--shafted. Stupid is as stupid does. |
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