Saturday, October 6, 2007

Without net neutrality, will consumers pay twice?

Consumers of Internet will probably have to pay much more if broadband providers are given the freedom of instituting a tiered service. If this happens, customers will have fewer choices and the costs charged to companies like Amazon.com, eBay, Google, and Microsoft will have to pass on their costs to their customers. Customers will either agree to pay more or go elsewhere. Do you think this is fair for the customers and/or the companies?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't understand how the companies can expect the goverment to pass a law to block sites and to make people pay. I do not think it is fair. If they do pass a bill i will think it will be interesting to see if they will have no other alternatives to visiting a site with out paying.