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Originally Posted by jrc
How do you get your internet access? Many get it through their cable company. How long do you think the cable companies will let you go around there money making services like broadcast TV with their money losing services like internet access. If that is the future the cost model has to change. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
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I use TWC cable for internet browsing, 2 Vonage lines, ROKU and to VPN into my job. Since May, my daily average download is 3Gbits and upload is 300Mbits.
The cable companies have been having a free lunch for a long time. Their monopoly on content is ending and they will become bit-slingers just like the phone companies - who seem to do OK with their "all you can eat" pricing model. If the prices go up, FIOS, DSL and WiMAX are competitive technologies to bypass the cable company, and will grow if there is a demand. The net neutrality discussion is about forcing the internet companies to let all data stream at the same rate. Hopefully the lobbyists don't buy the internet providers a law to prioritize data sources. Perhaps basic internet access should become a town utility - because it is very inexpensive to deliver the bits once the "tubes" are in place.