Re:AT&T Exec Calls Netflix’s Reed Hastings “Arrogant” For Ne...
by dragonwriter on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:33PM
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> Do you want to switch to metered service?
I'd rather have metered service than ISPs (who are often without effective competition as ISPs, and where the necessary property access -- which the incumbents got as monopoly telephone and/or cable providers -- to compete poses a very high barrier to new competition) that are also streaming video providers using consumption of unmetered service as an excuse to selectively try to extract rents from competitors in the streaming video space to reduce competition in that space so that they can establish non-competitive markets in that space as well.
This isn't about internet usage, its about access monopolies trying to become content monopolies.
I'd rather have metered service than ISPs (who are often without effective competition as ISPs, and where the necessary property access -- which the incumbents got as monopoly telephone and/or cable providers -- to compete poses a very high barrier to new competition) that are also streaming video providers using consumption of unmetered service as an excuse to selectively try to extract rents from competitors in the streaming video space to reduce competition in that space so that they can establish non-competitive markets in that space as well.
This isn't about internet usage, its about access monopolies trying to become content monopolies.