Aussies say pay-for-use would make the Net Neutrality problem go away

Started by Thorin, October 01, 2008, 02:41:05 PM

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Thorin

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10053045-94.html

Basically, the Australians charge for use rather than provide unlimited downloads and are now saying that if only the Americans would adopt pay-for-use, then the whole Net Neutrality issue would go away.
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Tom

Thats strange, because the Ausie ISPs seem to like to throttle, filter and censor the internet.. I wonder if they thought about that before writing that article?

And Net Nrutrality is about far more than just bandwidth issues.
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I'm wary of putting the flow of information over the internet under Government regulatory control.
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Thorin

Quote from: Tom on October 01, 2008, 02:44:23 PM
Thats strange, because the Ausie ISPs seem to like to throttle, filter and censor the internet.. I wonder if they thought about that before writing that article?

And Net Nrutrality is about far more than just bandwidth issues.

Yeah, as they explain in the video interview in that article, they see about 3% of the users using 50% of the bandwidth, and therefore they work at convincing those 3% of users to move to another network because they cost an inordinate amount compared to how much they pay on their plans.

Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 01, 2008, 02:53:24 PM
I'm wary of putting the flow of information over the internet under Government regulatory control.

Erm?  There was no mention of government regulatory control in that article as far as I could read?
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