If you saddle telecom companies with this socialist bill, they will not expand or increase research and development because there won't be any pay off for them.
I still do not understand your position. We do all pay for services we want. Presently, the services are split up by speed. You want to stream a netflix movie? you ain't doing it on dial up. And you probably are not doing it on anything less than DSL type speed. So you do have to pay for services and quality you want. You want internet, you have to PAY. No one is saying you get it for free.
PLEASE try to follow along, because your comments to date are NOT in line with ANYTHING I am saying. The internet is based on transferring data from one location to another. It' built with tons of redundancies, so that if one path is down/damaged/unresponsive it will get to you through another path. There was never suppose to be any reading of the actual data being transmitted, it was just supposed to move along the path. What the telco's want to do is read the data, and decide to block, greatly slow down the info's advancement, or let it go through normally.
That is HORRIBLE for the consumer. It allows the telco's to demand payment from content providers or they will not get to the telco's customers/make it agonizingly slow. It allows telco's to break up the internet into tiers like television is currently setup. I cant think of anything worse from a customer perspective.
If there is no payoff for the telco's then how has FiOS, U-verse, etc... come along. Telco's are paid by the customers for a service, the telco's are not taking a bath here. They are currently making tons of money. What the telco's do want to do is monetize every packet on the internet that passes from content providers, through them, to the customer. That is pure garbage.
Telco's are in the business to make money, and they do that when they have a large percentage of customers, which is why services get cheaper all the time - to appeal to a larger customer base. Blocking content is not a good business model and so far I don't recall anyone doing this - do you have proof that any current telcom is blocking content or holding their customers hostage?
And again, you seem to think tiers of service is not something a company should be able to charge for - Large users, like Engineering projects, hospitals, insurance companies transmitt tons of data and pay more for the speed/size of their usage. Who do you think would benefit from a one-size-fits-all type of system? Certainly not the consumer because they would bring everyone UP to pay for the difference they get now by charging more to those who use more.
You sound like those who whined about the Patriot Act and the liberties they were "possibly" going to lose. The telecoms are there to appeal to a broad base of customers and the first one who attempted to block content to PAYING sites, would start losing customers.
That is HORRIBLE for the consumer. It allows the telco's to demand payment from content providers or they will not get to the telco's customers/make it agonizingly slow.
And again, if a company/content provider isn't paying his bill, why should anyone allow it to go out for free?