Net Neutrality debate isn’t going to go away
Net Neutrality deals with the issue that all traffic travelling across a network should be given equal treatment. The network must be non discriminatory or ‘neutral’.
To this point, I was totally against the ISP’s who had proposed segregating certain “high priority” traffic according to a “tiered services” (TS) model, which they claim will allow them to provide advanced functionality and higher quality for customers. Tiered service proponents claim that there are valid uses for a “high priority traffic” model, and that these would not impose substantial bandwidth or quality of service restrictions on the general public. The tiered service would obviously make the consumer pay extra for services that used a high amount of bandwidth. And of course, everyone at this point, myself included has screamed and shouted and the thought of raised prices for the consumer. After all, shouldn’t increased usage of the internet the world around lead to lower prices?
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