Hi,
> Been trying to keep up with the Net Neutrality debate but obviously
> it's a confusing issue. My question is, don't we already pay for faster
> service? Don't websites pay based on the amount of bandwidth they need
> to serve out? I know I pay a premium price for cable internet service
> because I get more bandwidth. Seems like most people are willing to
> keep going as we are now -- where the price is proportional to the > speed.
The web site owner pays his own ISP (or he pays a hosting operator, who pays the ISP he connects to), but he's not paying the ISPs that serve the customers who access his site.
So if you host a web site that's connected to AT&T, and a Verizon customer accesses your web site, Verizon wants you to pay them extra to provide additional bandwidth for your connections to their customers.
Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA
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