Today, the FCC passed a list of net neutrality rules. The actual list of rules has yet to be released to the public. There is a very mixed response on this. That being said, the intention of the government (based from what I've read) seams to be to put laws in place that govern and limit what ISP's can and can't do.
Things like raising your rates because you visit certain sites, forcing you to pay faster speeds based on what you're using the internet for... these are the types of things the law is intended to prevent. That being said, the law may also be an influence over how bandwidth limits are handled, and how ISP's are allowed to charge for different bandwidth limits, which means bad news bears for anyone who either games or downloads a lot.
I haven't quite decided my position on this, but I definitely will quickly once I see the list of regulations.
I'll let you guys know when I find out some more.
9 comments:
The big drains are p2p (upload), download & streaming. Streaming is the pie the ISPs want to get a slice of. There's no money in the other two.
greast post
Sigh, my bills are going to be huge.
Comcast will find some way to make this work in its favor
Are internet service providers really in need of money so badly that they need new things to charge on us?
nice post!
finally somethin dope
Hmm... This is actually pretty serious.
oh man, i dont like it
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