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> until we swallow the pill of paying for what we use—like we do for other utilities What other utility gets to charge the manufacturer of whatever you use con
by mhurron 12y ago
> until we swallow the pill of paying for what we use—like we do for other utilities
What other utility gets to charge the manufacturer of whatever you use consume their service for? What power company gets to charge Lenovo because I plugged a Lenovo laptop into an outlet?
You only touch on a portion of what the issue is. And quite frankly to deal with what you did mention, I pay for internet access, I expect internet access. Why should I be charged more because I then choose to use it? Why should I be penalized for the ISP oversubscribing and underestimating the usage.
I shouldn't because that's not how they sold their service.
- saurik 12y agoThat's the point: as users we have to pay for what we use in order to avoid carriers trying to bill website operators. If you aren't willing to pay more for using more bandwidth than your neighbor, because you use Netflix and your neighbor only haphazardly checks email, then the carrier is going to try to bill Netflix, and we don't want that to happen.