> My grandmother pays $30/mo for internet access that she barely uses, and I don't think it's right to enshrine into law that Comcast can't offer her a plan where she pays $5/mo instead for limited access to the few sites she uses.
ISPs are too greedy for that nonsense. You're more likely to see $30 becoming the base price, and $50 is what it costs to access more content. Price shouldn't be based on what sites you like to visit. Under the title 2 designation, the internet is treated as a utility, so ISPs can't charge consumers based on how they use the internet, akin to how your water company can't charge you a premium if you decide to drink the water instead of using it to water your lawn. Abolishing net neutrality would allow for just that.
> As a bandwidth-hogging internet user, a lack of net neutrality will probably mean that I will pay more.
Why? ISPs already have data caps to charge customers more. Data caps are another story altogether... The cost of increasing broadband capacity has declined much faster than the increase in data traffic. For that reason alone Sonic doesn't impose data caps. If an ISP as big as Comcast says data caps are because heavy users are costing them more money, or saturating their network, it's a bunch of bullshit. One of the big reasons some ISPs have data caps is to keep customers from cord cutting cable TV. AT&T owns DirectTV, Comcast is a huge cable TV provider, they don't want customers relying solely on services like Netflix. If they can get customers to pay for both internet and TV, they will.
ISPs are too greedy for that nonsense. You're more likely to see $30 becoming the base price, and $50 is what it costs to access more content. Price shouldn't be based on what sites you like to visit. Under the title 2 designation, the internet is treated as a utility, so ISPs can't charge consumers based on how they use the internet, akin to how your water company can't charge you a premium if you decide to drink the water instead of using it to water your lawn. Abolishing net neutrality would allow for just that.
> As a bandwidth-hogging internet user, a lack of net neutrality will probably mean that I will pay more.
Why? ISPs already have data caps to charge customers more. Data caps are another story altogether... The cost of increasing broadband capacity has declined much faster than the increase in data traffic. For that reason alone Sonic doesn't impose data caps. If an ISP as big as Comcast says data caps are because heavy users are costing them more money, or saturating their network, it's a bunch of bullshit. One of the big reasons some ISPs have data caps is to keep customers from cord cutting cable TV. AT&T owns DirectTV, Comcast is a huge cable TV provider, they don't want customers relying solely on services like Netflix. If they can get customers to pay for both internet and TV, they will.