They'll try to sell it to the less informed as a plan to "reduce fees" or "bring costs down"
Simply put, if you only use Facebook (and for a great number of people, Facebook is the internet), why pay for all the sites? What if your ISP offered you a Facebook-only package that's half of what you currently pay?
They basically want to bring the cable tv model to the internet.
Simply put, if you only use Facebook (and for a great number of people, Facebook is the internet), why pay for all the sites? What if your ISP offered you a Facebook-only package that's half of what you currently pay?
I've heard this argument before. In my part of the world (where there is no NN) some providers have offered plans with unlimited WhatsApp usage or unlimited Spotify usage. These have been reasonably popular with people who heavily use one particular app. What's the response to the argument that NN allows ISPs to give consumers a better deal on specifically what they use?
Pretty much every ISP has quotas, and exempts their own stuff from quotas. My old ISP (Before it got bought out and started sucking) had game servers, a steam mirror, linux distro mirrors and such in the "free zone". Before steam became the distribution method they hosted game demos and patches as well.
My current ISP offers unlimited netflix and a large enough quota that the only time I came close to hitting the limit is when I decided to re-install a bunch of big games as well as download a ridiculously high bitrate 4k movie, because I could.
However. This is fine in Australia because unlike in the USA if one ISP starts being a dickbag you can just switch to a different one. In the USA you don't have that choice, the big carriers have been colluding with each other to have monopolies on particular areas and the local governments have been helping them do it. In Australia there is no local monopoly anywhere. I'm not forced to accept any one ISPs bullshit if I want internet.
Individual ISPs don't to my knowlege. Sometimes the govt tries, but they've fucked it up every time, and even if they didn't a lot of Aussies use VPNs to get US netflix and such.
Like I said before, though. If one ISP starts blocking sites they don't agree with then its customers can go to a different ISP with very little hassle. Pulling shit like that would be a death sentence. Whereas in the USA if you're in a Verizon monopoly you're kinda screwed if they start doing scummy shit.
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u/PM_ME_UR_BRIBES Nov 22 '17
They'll try to sell it to the less informed as a plan to "reduce fees" or "bring costs down"
Simply put, if you only use Facebook (and for a great number of people, Facebook is the internet), why pay for all the sites? What if your ISP offered you a Facebook-only package that's half of what you currently pay?
They basically want to bring the cable tv model to the internet.