Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
by danjayh on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:20AM
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Provided that there is competition, it's actually a good idea. My knee-jerk response to this was "you can do this, but you have to take away their monopolies." In a heavily competitive environment, ISPs wouldn't be able to get away with BS because everyone would just switch.
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Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
by GVIrish on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:18AM
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I don't think that would necessarily be the case. If ISP's could extract a bunch of extra profit by throttling there's a decent chance that all of them would do it.
Look at mobile providers for an example. Text messages cost almost nothing yet for many years each company charged heftily for text messaging which earned them a mountain of profit. And that's in a segment where there were multiple big players competing on relatively even terms.