@Cheryl K wrote:
net neutrality did no such thing. Market forces will make sure ISP's dont slow dow. No ISP ever wants the reputation of being slow. Slow speeds lose customers. If some company wants to pay extra for extra speed, its no different than the flex tolls we had on roads when I lived in South Florida.
It has everything to do with hysteria. People here were being led to think the internet would die the dsay of the vote.
You can trust your country to regulate business into oblivion. Here regulation can crush small business. I know, I've built, grown and sold a number of businesses here and I never found one regulation that made things better.
I think you are oversimplifying it. Without net neutrality, ISPs will be able to enhance or throttle access to certain sites, apps and content, as they see fit. AT&T won't slow down, it'll get faster and faster, as long as you are using the connection to access what AT&T wants to promote. Most likely, the ISPs will develop pricing models similar to cable TV, where the only way to get all of the two dozen things you really want/need is to subscribe to a very expensive tier that contains 500 things you don't care about but are forced to subsidize. At the same time, basic access will become more expensive. It's already out of reach for millions of those who need it most, for access to education and work, not to mention remote health care.
