calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to asdfdfdf
Re: Uh???
I agree with you generally.
I would point out that attempts to gouge certain classes of users are less likely to succeed as long as the charges are passed along directly--someone else will come along and solicit the gouged customer class. (An immediate thought is the customer using only 1 gig or less per month--they will probably abandon traditional broadband for any of the coming wide-deployment wireless applications, muni funded or not.)
If, instead, the ISPs dump extra charges on the content providers, we'll never have the ability to seek out cheaper ISPs, just as Unix/Linux users didn't have the ability to seek out cheap PCs when Microsoft was forcing the PC manufacturers to pay for Windows "per machine manufactured" rather than "per Windows copy installed."
calvoiper
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