Comment Re:Can someone explain something to me (Score 3, Insightful) 390
First, let's define "your connection". It is not just your connection to your isp, it is your connection to each website,mailserver, streaming audio server, etc. out there on the internet. Unless you only connect to web sites hosted at your ISP, that is.
Second, internet economic structure: Google already pays for the bandwidth from their provider to Google. You already pay for the connection between you and your ISP. Part of your fees pay for your ISP's upstream connection. Part of Google's fees pay for their ISP's upstream connection. The backbone providers have peering agreements and pay each other fees based on the amount of traffic that goes between them.
The Telcos in their role as backbone providers and as your(the user's) ISP want to stop carrying traffic from you to google and back unless google pays them.
So, if google gets behind paying your ISP, you will not have access to google. Google may be able to pay the rate, but what about smaller companies, or non-commercial blogs, or non-profit orgs? The internet will become smaller.
So to answer your specific questions:
1. Your connection to everyone but your ISP and those big corporations that can handle accounting for and paying all end-point ISPs will not be available anymore.
I'd call that worse.
2. You continue to pay the same. Unless you generate traffic outside your ISP. Your project web site gets linked on /. and you pay MY ISP because I viewed it.
3. One way I can see for a web site to cover their new bandwidth costs is to charge you. See, the ads only cover their end of the connection now.
Second, internet economic structure: Google already pays for the bandwidth from their provider to Google. You already pay for the connection between you and your ISP. Part of your fees pay for your ISP's upstream connection. Part of Google's fees pay for their ISP's upstream connection. The backbone providers have peering agreements and pay each other fees based on the amount of traffic that goes between them.
The Telcos in their role as backbone providers and as your(the user's) ISP want to stop carrying traffic from you to google and back unless google pays them.
So, if google gets behind paying your ISP, you will not have access to google. Google may be able to pay the rate, but what about smaller companies, or non-commercial blogs, or non-profit orgs? The internet will become smaller.
So to answer your specific questions:
1. Your connection to everyone but your ISP and those big corporations that can handle accounting for and paying all end-point ISPs will not be available anymore.
I'd call that worse.
2. You continue to pay the same. Unless you generate traffic outside your ISP. Your project web site gets linked on
3. One way I can see for a web site to cover their new bandwidth costs is to charge you. See, the ads only cover their end of the connection now.
