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Many large tech companies -- including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook -- have quietly brokered deals with Internet providers to ensure their content is not slowed as it travels through their networks, according to a blog post published Wednesday by telecom analyst Dan Rayburn.
It's unclear whether these deals were brokered before or after a federal court in January struck down rules that maintained net neutrality, which is the principle that all Internet traffic should be equally accessible to consumers. But Rayburn, an analyst at the research firm Frost & Sullivan, said such arrangements between web companies and Internet providers are nothing new.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5366283.html
Here's my question. Okay, the providers are already buying in to the pay for flow system. But how long before the providers turn to the users and start demanding the same thing? I give it three years at most, especially given that there will be very few providers. Maybe only two? Hi-speed users will need to buy the "Premium" package. Then you'll have some kind of middle-of -the-road package. And the poor folks will be left with the "Basic." And you'll still have to watch the ads.
It's unclear whether these deals were brokered before or after a federal court in January struck down rules that maintained net neutrality, which is the principle that all Internet traffic should be equally accessible to consumers. But Rayburn, an analyst at the research firm Frost & Sullivan, said such arrangements between web companies and Internet providers are nothing new.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5366283.html
Here's my question. Okay, the providers are already buying in to the pay for flow system. But how long before the providers turn to the users and start demanding the same thing? I give it three years at most, especially given that there will be very few providers. Maybe only two? Hi-speed users will need to buy the "Premium" package. Then you'll have some kind of middle-of -the-road package. And the poor folks will be left with the "Basic." And you'll still have to watch the ads.
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