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Story: RIP Net neutrality?

Posted by: Jim Morrison (Thursday 8 June 2006, 12:41 PM)

Content providers already pay a premium for speed of transmission to consumers and volume of data. This is what bandwidth sizes and usage billing, and choice of datacentre is all about and BigCorp Inc can pay a little more for their dozen TV streams than Little&Co pay for thier 2 pages of HTML.

Broadband suppliers already cap customer useage and charge extra above reasonable use. This allows Mr&Mrs Doe to enjoy his broadband while Mr BitTorrent pays a little extra for over use.

Personally I don't see the problem with this model as it does allow the backbone suppliers to recoup their investment without consideration for the profitability or political correctness of the data being transmitted.