Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Net Neutrality

     After reading the Net Neutrality article my first thought was that I wasn't surprised.  Big businesses have always exclusively looked out for themselves and to have no concern about potential loss of customers due to increasing monthly fees for certain content is not much of a shock.  Especially considering the potential monetary gain.  It was a bit strange to me to read that Google, who had once been a leader in striving for net neutrality, jumped ship in order to placate Verizon, simply over the Android operating system. 
    My second thought was that it is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion for service providers to be able to charge additional money for users to access certain content.  Cell phone bills are expensive enough as it is, and still climbing in price; to add additional fees at this point would be insane, bills could be in excess of $150 a month for a single user.  As a smart phone owner I can say that without a doubt I would drop my data plan and simply return to a regular cellphone.
   Finally, I guess all I can hope for is for net neutrality regulations to pass so that companies cannot charge additional fees for content.  However, even if these regulations did come into effect, there is no doubt in my mind that service providers would jack up prices of other services to compensate for lost revenue.  Regardless of what happens in the net neutrality issue, the service providers will continue to make their money one way or another.

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