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- outlaw686, on 06/15/2008, -4/+683Well, the internet was good while it lasted.
- inactive, on 06/15/2008, -10/+306I'm not too worried. All they're doing is setting themselves up to have a competitor come in and take their market share away. Dumb ass move...
Then again, a few million eff-you emails to their companies would never hurt =) - TheFounder, on 06/15/2008, -6/+198Dear Time Warner, Comcast and AT&T... may the fleas of a thousand camels infest in your armpits.
- manitcor, on 06/15/2008, -1/+182Hasn't the American public paid enough for high speed access yet?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 ...
more than 200billion (that's more than $500 from every man woman and child in the US) was fleeced from tax payers over the last decade and given directly to the telecoms specifically for broadband infrastructure. It didn't matter if the individual tax payers used the internet or not.
coupled with the some of the most expensive broadband packages in the world. Telecoms should be giving us free bandwidth, hookers and more for how much we have paid! - sup191, on 06/15/2008, -3/+163Hopefully larger companies who rely on bandwidth as a major source for their business will band together and cause interference with these ISP's - such as Apple (iTunes), Netflix, Vonage, etc...
If enough businesses show that they will be serious effected by caps, it *may* just cause enough negativity to stop the caps before they get fully started.
I know... Wishful thinking. - MattGilley, on 06/15/2008, -0/+145“Based on current trends, total bandwidth in the AT&T network will increase by four times over the next three years,” the company said in a statement.
Ok, so upgrade the ***** hardware. Guess I was wrong to assume these companies might actually use the money they make in profits to benefit their customers. - ASSASSYN360, on 06/15/2008, -1/+129I wonder if dial up is home. I think I will give her a call...maybe we can get back together.
- po43292, on 06/15/2008, -1/+125Will there be rollover gigabytes? This needs to stop before it starts.
- goalieguy314, on 06/15/2008, -1/+119Thus began the Great Internet Wars.
- aelias, on 06/15/2008, -5/+122"People who use more should pay more."
Ummmm, no, dumb *****. That's why we pay what we do, for unlimited service.
I guess the idea that people who use less should pay less never entered into the equation, hmmmmm? Do grandma and grandpa who use the internet twice a month need to get soaked for 40-50$, no, I don't think they do.
I've already downloaded everything I could ever need, and backed it up. I don't subscribe to streaming services, and I'll be goddamned if I let TV invade my internet usage, so maybe this will actually save me a couple bucks.
Then again, there's always using the neighbors wi-fi for porn, music, and movies. - Belldanime, on 06/15/2008, -0/+86Good game, chaps.
- jorel314, on 06/15/2008, -0/+78There are only ten Tier 1 carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier
Among them are AT&T, Verizon, AOL, Sprint. Tier 1 means those companies are connected directly to the network and don't have to pay anyone, but everyone else has to go through them to connect and has to pay. They also make it very difficult for anyone else to become a Tier 1.
If those 10 companies decide to make an unholy alliance, they can collude to turn the Internet into a subscription based model and not allow anyone else to be an ISP with Tier 1 status.
Read and digg "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" if you care about the future of the Internet.
http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.htm ... - foltaggio, on 07/11/2008, -1/+76***** Comcast. ***** AT&T. ***** Time Warner.
- StuTheMeatMan, on 06/15/2008, -3/+69How could you have an article like that and not even mention the possibility that the RIAA/MIAA had a say?
- inactive, on 06/15/2008, -4/+62Mesh networks are the cure! I've been saying this for years! Get those home wifi routers that will connect to your neighbors wifi without the need of a phone company!
- hollyminkowski, on 06/15/2008, -2/+57Google bought up all that cheap dot com boom dark fiber for pennies on the dollar in hopes that the major ISP's would be stupid enough to try something like this.
- spidrw, on 06/15/2008, -0/+55Funny that I just saw a commercial for Time Warner (for their phone service) that showed a guy saying how much he hated 'limits' and wanted to be able to do whatever he wanted, no matter what. Enter TW phone service, with unlimited minutes. Wonder how long they'll keep that ad running once this ***** takes effect on their Internet service.
- Namelessthinker, on 06/15/2008, -3/+57Al Gore did not create the internet for companies to put caps on their users bandwidth.
- bhattsan, on 06/15/2008, -0/+53"Verizon FiOS Internet Service is not currently available for your address."
:( - Ryosen, on 06/15/2008, -1/+53Comcast can do whatever the hell they please. This past week, Verizon has been busily laying fiber on our street. I can't wait to be done with Comcast.
- fleury29, on 06/15/2008, -1/+50Well Im glad they just put in Verizon FiOS in my community...looks like comcast is gonna lose another customer...
- alecsputnik, on 06/15/2008, -3/+46this is awful
- xerigen, on 06/15/2008, -3/+42"That means that 5 percent of customers use more than 50 percent of the network’s overall capacity, the company said, and many of those people are assumed to be sharing copyrighted video and music files illegally."
***** off and prove it *****. - thelastwarrior, on 06/15/2008, -1/+40http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS/
- Asidic, on 06/15/2008, -1/+37And while we're at it, ***** the RIAA!
- Louis11, on 06/15/2008, -0/+36And look what happened to them . . .
- mesmeriffic, on 06/15/2008, -0/+36You can't call her, she's downloading AOL 5.0.
- snotrokit, on 06/15/2008, -0/+36I hope you are right. I really do.
- down4twenty, on 06/15/2008, -2/+36they will most likely cut a deal among themselves way before they even think of helping the consumer.
- Trigononamous, on 06/15/2008, -0/+34Those were the good old days, weren't they.
"MOM! STAY OFF THE PHONE, I NEED TO USE THE INTERNET!" - Versh, on 06/15/2008, -0/+34Gone were the times of "lol-ing" and "j/k" as forums and message boards saw the likes of troll and moderator united in a single cause...
- Grimulus, on 06/15/2008, -1/+34That's what I've been thinking since I heard about this stuff. We probably can't stop the implementation but it shouldn't be long before ISPs start fighting for customers by giving bigger limits for better prices. Then it will become unlimited again.
But still, I hate that they are even trying to cap us. - theOster, on 06/15/2008, -0/+30help us sergey and larry - you're our only hope...
- Barackalypse, on 06/15/2008, -0/+30You know their real goal here is to protect their revenue streams from cable and satellite tv by killing free alternatives to it. If this were simply about fair access to shared resources or avoiding costly infrastructure deployments there are other ways of handling it, involving throttling connections for heavy users during periods of peak access.
- hadak, on 06/15/2008, -2/+31This is the way the Internet ends.
- theguitarman2, on 06/15/2008, -3/+32It's Comcastic!
- StuTheMeatMan, on 06/15/2008, -1/+29MPAA you idiot!
- Traiklin, on 06/15/2008, -1/+29yep and that's the main problem with FiOS.
Everyone is quick to say "Switch to FiOS" only to not realize that verizon isn't pumping it out as fast as they want you to believe. - pianomahnn, on 06/15/2008, -6/+34Who are the technical people that actually work on these projects? ***** the CEOs, they're really insignificant in the long run, coming and going, severance packages, etc.. But the peons who go along with this, who actually do all the work....I pity them. Such a shame they're horrible things. *sigh*
- clharlem149, on 06/15/2008, -1/+28what i don't see is how this will at all be affecting the majority of internet users. they argue that this is about fairness, but i haven't heard of any evidence that shows that the 5% high bandwidth users are doing anything to screw up the rest of the population's connection. basically, they want basic users to pay the same, and high end users to pay more. who is that fair for?
there are no benefits in their plan beyond the companies themselves. they talk about using increased profits to expand their broadband network, but you can guarantee that prices will not go down once more bandwidth is available. and once the activities of the average user go from checking email and news to renting movies on itunes and netflix (the download-able kind) and other data-heavy activities, not only will the average user's experience not be benefited, it will be screwed.
this is the type of plan that discourages the growth of the internet as a platform for so much more than it already is, and discourages users from wanting to take advantage of that new content - TremorX, on 06/15/2008, -0/+26First they came for the 100 gig users, but I did not speak up because I didn't use 100 gigs.
- FFandMMfan, on 06/15/2008, -4/+30***** THIS *****
Stupid greedy *****, need to ***** die, all those ***** execs. - DigitalMuse, on 06/15/2008, -1/+26"Have a competitor come in and take their market share away"? I'm not so sure. That'd be nice but there's huge barriers to entry to a market like internet service providers, namely infrastructure. It would be incredibly expensive and time consuming to lay down the amount of infrastructure necessary enough to compete with the likes of Comcast, etc
- RedAmerican, on 06/15/2008, -8/+33Houston, we have a problem. The rich white men with their hand on the internet tap have gone mad! They don't know what the internet is but by God they want to deprive us of it.
- krnldmp, on 06/15/2008, -0/+24Looks like someone will have to figure out wireless mesh networks so ISPs can be completely bypassed for a large portion of high volume traffic.
- Slackdragon, on 06/15/2008, -0/+24Well, I find download limits revolting.
- Drizzit, on 06/15/2008, -1/+24Which competitors?
Now I have FIOS and the only alternative are.
Time Warner - Caps
Yep that's it. Verizon will not miss out on the new feeding grounds for money.
Both do not have to share their infrastructure with anyone so any competition will have to build access to my house.
Good luck with that. - blacktriangle, on 06/15/2008, -1/+24AOL did this with charging per hour, right? And that was for 56k access.
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