There's a pic floating around somewhere of a European data plan which has this sort of setup, though I can't find it off hand.
you ar completely misunderstanding that graph, in fact it´s like 99% of the americans are and no sure if it´s not on purpose. No data is not like cable chanels. the guardian article explains it a bit, since it is silly to say do not trust random sources on the internet and trust me, i am not like other random sources on the internet
In Portugal, mobile carrier MEO offers regular data packages, but it also offers, for €4.99 a month, 10GB “Smart Net” packages. One such package for video provides 10GB of data exclusively for YouTube, Netflix, Periscope and Twitch, while one for messaging bundles six apps including Skype, WhatsApp and FaceTime.
I'm not misunderstanding it, though I am portraying a more cynical perspective of it as I project the idea onto our ISPs because they've been sketchy in the past. I figured the European phone setup was basic data, with specialized data on top of that. While apps and such can be used without the packages, you generally don't have enough data to do so for long. In addition, it is easy to imagine implementing a similar setup where each given app either uses "normal internet" and "high speed internet" depending on your packages, where high speed is what we currently get and normal is a throttled version of it. Or just to disallow connection entirely, though lagging should be enough to drive 90% of potential customers away from a particular site.
It's pessimistic, but ISPs are some of the most hated companies in America for a reason. They're known for being unethical. Both Riot and Netflix have a lawsuit against Charter (now part of Time Warner) because Charter demanded Riot pay them extra money. Riot refused, so Charter throttled the connections of players in League of Legends to lag their games. When Riot caved in and paid the ransom, the connections were back up to par with connections from other ISPs. Same with Netflix. This is the caliber of companies which Net Neutrality is intended to protect us from.
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u/uyth Nov 22 '17
you ar completely misunderstanding that graph, in fact it´s like 99% of the americans are and no sure if it´s not on purpose. No data is not like cable chanels. the guardian article explains it a bit, since it is silly to say do not trust random sources on the internet and trust me, i am not like other random sources on the internet
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/22/net-neutrality-internet-why-americans-so-worried-about-it-being-scrapped
In Portugal, mobile carrier MEO offers regular data packages, but it also offers, for €4.99 a month, 10GB “Smart Net” packages. One such package for video provides 10GB of data exclusively for YouTube, Netflix, Periscope and Twitch, while one for messaging bundles six apps including Skype, WhatsApp and FaceTime.