pnh102
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Re: Monopolist
said by rahlquist  :Thats fine, and what happens when the backbone provider do the same thing? Say Level3 decides google can have 2 terrabytes over their portion of the backbone per month. Anything beyond that they throttle back to 3Kbps, unless Google pays their extorion... But again, people will complain to their ISPs about not being able to access their websites. Customers won't care about backbone providers and such; they just want to access Google and they will happily switch from an ISP which doesn't provide them with access to Google to one that does. Of course, ISPs have more than one choice in backbone providers and they could also dump a provider if it pulled this kind of a stunt.
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npyoung
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Jacksonville, OR | You assume that there's someone to switch to for broadband. In most markets, if you are lucky, there are two: cableco and telco. Ben and Ben Dover. |
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pnh102
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| said by npyoung :You assume that there's someone to switch to for broadband. In most markets, if you are lucky, there are two: cableco and telco. Ben and Ben Dover. This goes back to the issue of usability. If both choices of ISP block access to the content that a customer wants, why would the customer bother using either choice? In the end it still hurts the ISPs if they do this.
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Skippy25
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