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____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:55 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:12 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>
>>>> When bandwidth is free
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Monopolists have, so far, convinced people in both parties that they are
>>>>| essential to the maintenance of the Internet. They are not. The Internet
>>>>| was a network-of-networks from the beginning, and must become one again.
>>>>|
>>>>| Let 2009 begin the task of breaking this monopoly, of freeing the bits,
>>>>| and of getting economic growth going again.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3226
>>>>
>>>
>>> The internet has always run on telco networks.. it's just that it used
>>> to be paid for by universities, libraries, governments, military and so
>>> on. In recessionary times, who should pay?
>>
>> People pay their ISPs.
>>
>
> Indeed, but not for what they use - high users generally get an
> excellent deal on the back of low users.
>
> Is this fair?
Tariffs for levels of use would be fair; net neutrality violations
(throttling), however, would not.
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