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To: SengirV

What’s wrong with multi-tiered pricing? If I want the fancier car I have to pay more money. I’m just not interested in the government forcing anybody to give me “free stuff”.


14 posted on 12/06/2010 7:19:43 AM PST by The Duke
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To: The Duke
What’s wrong with multi-tiered pricing?

Nothing. Roadrunner has "lite," normal and "turbo" bandwidths available. I also hear they're going to offer a "gamer" package where you pay more for very low latency. Net neutrality doesn't affect this at all.

The problem comes from "tiering" on the other side. The ISP would restrict bandwidth from content providers such as Netflix unless those providers pay up. Basically it's extortion. This destroys the open nature of the Internet, where when you get online you expect access to all resources equally.

20 posted on 12/06/2010 8:23:40 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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