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Re:AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of t... by HankB99 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:00PM (#15974671)
>but they can afford "access fees" and fast lanes.

Yes. They just pass it on to their users. When Comcast started charging then to remove the bottleneck a few years ago, it was followed by a price increase. Netflix is not even waiting this time. Streaming prices go up again in early January.

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Re:AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of t... by ac29 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:17PM (#15975199)
To be fair, Netflix has increased prices about once a year for the past few years, and all price increases were announced 6+ months ahead of time. This price increase doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality, it has to do with funding their increasingly debt-fueled content production.
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Re:AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of t... by mrguyorama on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:06AM (#15979801)
It's also possible that they were betting on net neutrality dying as well
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