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Charging by the byte would disincentive users from exploring the Internet. That effectively kills the Internet as we know it.
by nosuchthing 10y ago
Charging by the byte would disincentive users from exploring the Internet.
That effectively kills the Internet as we know it.
- Diamons 10y agoSeriously. It amazes me how ignorant some people are to what the Internet actually is.
- jaredklewis 10y agoWell, sure.I for one think it is great for people to travel to far away places, but I still support charging plane fare based on the distance traveled. Like fuel and clean air, radio spectrum and fiber wires are both physically limited resources and it makes sense to incentivize efficient use of them. You can browse thousands of web pages of text for the same bandwidth cost as 1 HD video. The way we use bandwidth today (animate gifs, ugh) is wasteful and makes everyone's internet more expensive.
- nosuchthing 10y agoThe bandwidth capacity already exists from all the dark fiber installed nearly 20 years ago. The issue is mainly with monopolies and Oligopolies of the ISP and telecoms providers.