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I hope it does get ugly, because that's the only way this 'fast lane' horseshit is going to stop.
by macavity23 12y ago
I hope it does get ugly, because that's the only way this 'fast lane' horseshit is going to stop.
- DanBC 12y agoOr perhaps it'll just make ISPs start charging by bandwidth instead of offering "unlimited" and hoping most people don't use it.
- hga 12y agoThat doesn't address the net neutrality aspect of this. Above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858919 we see quoted from a Verizon press release that "Verizon had a total of 5.8 million FiOS Internet and 5.0 million FiOS Video connections at the end of the [2nd] quarter [of 2013]" Verizon doesn't want more "cord cutters" of a sort to drop their FiOS video accounts in favor of a la carte offerings from Netflix et. al. AT&T's U-verse isn't as big a thing for them, but they use vicious caps to protect it, and of course all the cable companies are by definition video service providers.