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> ISP can't tell the difference between a personal VPN and an employer-mandated one. ... Fortune 500 and from the governments To an ISP that sees net neutrali
by gregmac 10y ago
> ISP can't tell the difference between a personal VPN and an employer-mandated one. ... Fortune 500 and from the governments
To an ISP that sees net neutrality as a barrier to extracting their "true value", they hear: a user is depending on the ISP to provide a corporate VPN to their Fortune 500 or government job.
It's only reasonable that the ISP is fairly compensated for that, after all, without the ISP the employee couldn't work at all! Now it's just a question of price.. +$200/mo? 5% of the employee wages might be reasonable? Or maybe a % of the company's revenue? The employee contributes to revenue, the ISP enables the employee to work... it's only fair.
They'd have to charge this for any VPN of course, because like you said, they can't tell the difference between personal and corporate VPNs.
(In case it's not obvious I vehemently disagree with the above situation, and strongly believe that we should either have very tightly-enforced net neutrality or even better, make last-mile a utility that's not allowed to directly provide internet access and instead let people choose from dozens of ISPs to provide their upstream connection)