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Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality
- anigbrowl 16y agoThe thing is, stratification into entry and premium services already exists. you can get basic cable or ADSL, pay more for a T1, and so on (I'm not going to list all the various service offerings, but there are plenty). But we've still got local monopolies, pricing has not come down all that much, and speeds and service availability have not improved all that much either over the last few years. I'm very skeptical that auctioning routing priority at the packet level is going to lead to any great improvement. More likely the marginal increase in delivery speed of a few premium services will be cited as the justification for throttling a bunch of others to the point where people are prepared to cough up some more for the service, or customers will just get nickel-and-dimed with a bunch of vaguely specified 'routing fees'.