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For the average person paying 60 bucks a month for internet today while only using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Netflix, this sounds like a great deal.

by 794CD01 10y ago

kitsy 10y ago
Until they want to click on a Facebook news article (or a Instagram image in Twitter or a GroupOn link in GMail) and Access Denied message.
- 794CD01 10y ago
  Which will accelerate the move Facebook, Twitter, etc are already making to rehost all that content on their own servers to provide an "integrated experience" for their users.
  - timecube 10y ago
    True, but turning the internet into a series of homogeneous "integrated experiences" isn't a good thing.
creeble 10y ago
Exactly the problem.
- byuu 10y ago
  Right, there are plenty of people who would be happy with basically Facebook and Gmail alone. And the cable companies will be more than happy to extract $40-$60 a month from granny that uses maybe 1GB of bandwidth from those two sites at best. This puts say, Hacker News, in a very bad position. As well as any new startup that wants to compete against the major players with billions of dollars. Already there are people strong-armed into AT&T's DirecTV Now, which is zero-rated on AT&T's wireless network. With the pitiful bandwidth caps on mobile data, how can Netflix possibly compete with that?
  - 794CD01 10y ago
    PSA: if you realize that reality "puts you in a bad position", take that as a hint to reconsider your position.
    - jandrese 10y ago
      Yeah, you should just roll over and die so Time Warner/Comcast/Viacom/etc... bottom line isn't threatened in any way no matter how lousy and overpriced their product is. Geez, the nerve of some people.
      - deleted 10y ago
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jandrese 10y ago
Those fees are on top of the $60/month for internet. Regular internet of course being limited to 512kbps and 1GB/month ($25 per each additional gigabyte). It's coming too, because it is a great deal for ISPs (more money! Huge kickbacks for the senior management!), and a great deal for megacorp incumbent media companies who don't have to worry about any of those pesky upstarts screwing up their monopolistic business models. No more Netflix like services appearing and eating your lunch, you can effectively cut them off at the ISP.

For the average person paying 60 bucks a month for internet today while only using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Netflix, this sounds like a great deal.

by 794CD01 10y ago

For the average person paying 60 bucks a month for internet today while only using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Netflix, this sounds like a great deal.

kitsy 10y ago

Until they want to click on a Facebook news article (or a Instagram image in Twitter or a GroupOn link in GMail) and Access Denied message.

794CD01 10y ago
Which will accelerate the move Facebook, Twitter, etc are already making to rehost all that content on their own servers to provide an "integrated experience" for their users.
- timecube 10y ago
  True, but turning the internet into a series of homogeneous "integrated experiences" isn't a good thing.

creeble 10y ago

Exactly the problem.

byuu 10y ago
Right, there are plenty of people who would be happy with basically Facebook and Gmail alone. And the cable companies will be more than happy to extract $40-$60 a month from granny that uses maybe 1GB of bandwidth from those two sites at best. This puts say, Hacker News, in a very bad position. As well as any new startup that wants to compete against the major players with billions of dollars. Already there are people strong-armed into AT&T's DirecTV Now, which is zero-rated on AT&T's wireless network. With the pitiful bandwidth caps on mobile data, how can Netflix possibly compete with that?
- 794CD01 10y ago
  PSA: if you realize that reality "puts you in a bad position", take that as a hint to reconsider your position.
  - jandrese 10y ago
    Yeah, you should just roll over and die so Time Warner/Comcast/Viacom/etc... bottom line isn't threatened in any way no matter how lousy and overpriced their product is. Geez, the nerve of some people.
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]

jandrese 10y ago

Those fees are on top of the $60/month for internet. Regular internet of course being limited to 512kbps and 1GB/month ($25 per each additional gigabyte). It's coming too, because it is a great deal for ISPs (more money! Huge kickbacks for the senior management!), and a great deal for megacorp incumbent media companies who don't have to worry about any of those pesky upstarts screwing up their monopolistic business models. No more Netflix like services appearing and eating your lunch, you can effectively cut them off at the ISP.