Phantom Phenom wrote:uscbucsfan wrote:Where did you read that's what they will do? Have any ISP come out and said they will do any of that?
I get bringing up all the worst case scenarios in attempts to get a rise out of people and peak interest, but you are selling bullshit.
Prior to 2015 there wasn't net neutrality, it will be closer to that than what you are talking about. The big change is going to be throttling services like Netflix, Hulu, etc. running on ISP's services for people who aren't paying for their entertainment. This primarily going to come from the large ISPs that are primarily cable companies (Comcast, Spectrum, etc.) If you hate that, cancel your service and go with another company. As previously discussed, there are options everywhere.
just my opinion but we shall see
Explain why that's your opinion.
You do know cable companies can raise their top tier prices now, right? As long as they offer lower basic prices, they can raise their higher packages. They don't to retain customers, the market is preventing that. So why implement what you are saying? You don't think they will continue to attempt to retain customers?
They are simply losing money to companies like Netflix, Hulu, etc. Chord cutting and high bandwidth consumption from these companies is hurting them, so they want to throttle their activity, unless you purchase their entire platter of products. Again, we are primarily talking about Comcast, Spectrum, and companies that base a large percentage of their business on entertainment offerings. At the end of the day it's a business. If they start implementing what you believe, they will fail faster than they are currently.