04-26-2014, 02:42 PM
The notion of a data hog is a sympathy artifice that has no reason to exist. Be careful when parroting what ISP public relations people or CEOs say.
Their limitations of service are self-imposed, because that's the nature of how monopolies, duopolies etc work ... there are no natural market forces nor sufficient governmental oversight to change that. As you say, real alternatives don't exist. It's textbook.
Pay-to-play means that there's no reason why your bank might someday enter into an agreement with the ISP so that you don't have to wait for info. Who do you think picks up the tab? Pay-to-play is a corruption because we already pay ISPs and cable companies for service poorly delivered. We don't need to pay them more, indirectly, by paying for the increased costs they push to content providers who will have to pass it on to us.
It's nutty for ISPs to charge us to deliver content and for ISPs to also charge content providers to deliver customers. They're double-dipping.
And if you're thinking your bank access is "more worthy" than my Netflix entertainment, that's a form of discrimination that pay-to-play favors.
Their limitations of service are self-imposed, because that's the nature of how monopolies, duopolies etc work ... there are no natural market forces nor sufficient governmental oversight to change that. As you say, real alternatives don't exist. It's textbook.
Pay-to-play means that there's no reason why your bank might someday enter into an agreement with the ISP so that you don't have to wait for info. Who do you think picks up the tab? Pay-to-play is a corruption because we already pay ISPs and cable companies for service poorly delivered. We don't need to pay them more, indirectly, by paying for the increased costs they push to content providers who will have to pass it on to us.
It's nutty for ISPs to charge us to deliver content and for ISPs to also charge content providers to deliver customers. They're double-dipping.
And if you're thinking your bank access is "more worthy" than my Netflix entertainment, that's a form of discrimination that pay-to-play favors.