The horror of a world without Net Neutrality!

[opethdisciple]

I can see this happening to be honest.

Any way to further control and monetise the internet is something companies and our Governments will want.

The US under Obama had this debate and Net Neutrality won. However Trump wants to reverse this and appointed the main anti net neutrality guy to head up his technical task force so it's something that is going to happen in the US (i.e no more net neutrality).

Supposedly Portugal are doing this as well.

I hope it doesn't come to the UK!

It looks horrific!

 

[Caged]

It's also a problem the other way around - e.g. how does a startup get their service included in the 'music' streaming package rather than only being available to people who subscribe to everything? Do content providers have to bribe ISPs to classify their services appropriately?

 

[kindai]

Buy a "VPS" package and tunnel everything?

 

[sparkymark75]

I can't imagine the first ISP in the UK that adopts this approach will face a rush of customers signing up. However, if all the ISPs collude to release this pricing structure at the same time, we won't have any choice which is more worrying. If the US adopts it, it won't be long until our government look into it.

 

[kitfit1]

I'm not too shure anyone that has replied yet has actually read the link in the OP. This isn't about ISP's, it's about mobile data. No ISP in the UK breaks down data packages in that way, you just pay more for more data.

 

[opethdisciple]

I'm not too shure anyone that has replied yet has actually read the link in the OP. This isn't about ISP's, it's about mobile data. No ISP in the UK breaks down data packages in that way, you just pay more for more data.

But it's setting a precedent tho.

 

[Caged]

+ what makes you think that people's primary Internet connection won't one day be a tablet in the living room with a 4G data plan? I imagine there's quite a lot of people who have an iPad, an iPhone, and only use a PC at work. What mobile operators do is relevant.

 

[Avalon]

Most of the mobile networks do this with specific types of traffic already, tethering for example. The restriction is stupidly easy to circumvent, though that could change. I see this as the thin end of the wedge, if net nutrality falls, it’s only going to get worse, not better.