The Red Brick Times

Internet Metering: OPEC does it with oil, these guys figure they can do it with bandwidth.

"Cable companies Time Warner and Comcast, and phone giants AT&T and Verizon sell the vast majority of high-speed Internet service in the United States. Phone and cable companies like these have no other competition in 97% of US markets, thanks to corrupt policies passed by the Bush Administration at the companies' behest.

These duopolies are betting on the future of their "triple-play" phone-Internet-TV service, so that you'll pay them more than $100 per month and they can keep earning record profits. They know that if you start downloading video from online innovators like Hulu.com and Roku.com, eventually you won't need their expensive, advertising-ridden television service. If you decide to use online phone providers like Skype, you won't need their expensive phone service. The answer? Jack up the cost of Internet, and once again eliminate the competition."

Makes you wish there was a lobbyist representing you in Washington, don't it?

Posted 5:00 AM by whatley (1) comments

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If money is what they most crave, starve them out. Do without. Look at how much of the ad space in printed media is centered around television - sales of sets, recorders, players, surround sound, home theater, media. It's almost pathological in its desperation to immobilize bodies and minds. It's the world's biggest treacle well. Internet is striving to be the same, with myriad filters designed to separate you from your drug unless you pay and pay. Please sir, may I have some more?

# posted by  Andy : May 12, 2009 7:17 AM
 
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