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For those doting on net neutrality - this is purely the 'answer' from a Cable companies perspective. People don't need cable now. So what do you do? Buy an ISP,

For those doting on net neutrality - this is purely the 'answer' from a Cable companies perspective. People don't need cable now. So what do you do? Buy an ISP, match up with existing partners to offer deals. It's already happened here in New Zealand. Telecom have partnered with Spotify, Vodafone has just bought a bunch of smaller ISP's. Sky, originally our version of "cable"/satellite has now bought out a lot of the bigger ISP's and is using it's network to push content via streaming services at a premium. The funny thing is, Telecom own pretty much all of our lines. (Govt sold them in the 80's.) The plot thickens..

cbhl 12y ago
I dunno. Preferential zero-rating of a specific service, whether it's Facebook or Spotify, is precisely the antithesis of net neutrality. When I think of net neutrality, I think about what happened to ISPs in Canada -- bandwidth caps (albeit large ones, after many years of squabbling) and per-GB overage fees. But, while I'd rather that the ISP charge me a reasonable tariff for additional data usage than throttle me during peak hours for a fixed price, I can see that not everyone would like it that way.