FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sets course to dismantle net neutrality rules

[Zkuq]

SvennoJ said:

Zkuq said:

No, I'm pretty sure I do understand it. Even the article pretty much says net neutrality prevents ISPs from charging extra for extra speed: "Without the rules in place, ISPs could essentially force companies like Netflix to pay a toll to avoid throttling video feeds." And I would assume it's also possible to charge extra for traffic going from the US to outside the US, which leads nicely to my remark about datacenters. Of course your point about a lot of datacenters being outside the US is probably true. Anyway, if companies such as Netflix have to pay extra to avoid throttling their videos, in the end all consumers are going to pay for it in subscription prices.

Could it go so far as with mobile data? Internet traffic divided up per content, like paying out the nose for sms messages. Extra fee on downloading games, pay separate for access to adult content, online gaming fee, cloud streaming fees. Basic package only includes email and basic browsing.

I've been under the impression that services (e.g. Netflix) are the ones that are supposed to pay in the typical scenario. I don't know if there's anything preventing ISPs from doing what you described if the changes happen though. Free market with as few limits as possible is wonderful, isn't it?