Yay for living in a country where the ISPs don't give a fuck what you do on the internet!...well the bandwidth sucks but hey can't have everything... 

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I mean, it makes sense to a certain extent. It's a lot like health care: the gap between "heavy" users and "casual" users is insanely huge, so both businesses and "casual" users should wonder why the heavy users get away with paying the same amounts.

I just don't think it should be a punitive system, which is what they seem to want to describe, and what Comcast was really trotting out (basically charging you a hefty fee for every 50 GB you went over the limit, up to a certain point, so that truly unlimited was like $300/mo or something, after you fought through all the penalty tiers). An "elite" package for heavier users, at levels that heavy users usually operate at and casual users almost never operate at, would be fine, since these elite users clearly value internet access more.

The key is implementation of such a policy. There's a fair way to make sure that the heavy users pay their fair share (while rewarding them maybe with faster speeds in exchange for their high-cost large downloads), and a very unfair way (like no-warning data caps with a sudden $50 penalty fee if you stray from 99.9 GB to 100.1 GB)

The FCC is rewriting their rules within the guidelines that the SC stated. Some congressmen amongst the usual suspects decry this as "socialism" and are trying a bill to stop it, but the Senate and Obama will never run an anti-net neutrality bill.

Boogie2988 put out a good vid on this last month if anyone hasn't checked it out yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YALKSyjHfFo

good article and i agree.   internet is so business critical there days.  it would be in everyone's best interest to treat it like a utility and invest the money to reach these higher speeds.  

Internet here is expensive too 25$ for 4 Mbps. Finally I guess internet is still expensive everywhere except in Niue.

I want to punch him with my foot, what a wiener!

While you are at it reduces the fee for people with lower use and don't try to sell a service bigger and more expensive than those people need.

One of the reasons online only would suck, even more when we don't like MP.