FCC Says Wireless Providers Need to Offer 'Open Internet'
Goodbye 20$ data plan, hello 80$ data plan.
1 a limit to the amount of data you can use each month with hefty overage.
2 the mobile internet will get really slow because people can now do any thing they want on it stream music of video or download songs of movies to there mobile devices.
3 The price of service will drastically increase. This will be because companies like Sprint Verizon and ATT will have to run more data lines to there over 200,000 + cell sites. This way every ones internet can still keep up to speed.
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Yes the system is taxed as is. However, with rising prices as it stands with no NN rules, why are companies not reinvesting the money to improve the infrastucture? Since the companies can block whatever sites they want, there is no incentive to improve ...
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That simple......
If they CANT get to the sites they want to go to , for a price that is with in reason.....
They will not pay for it....
stevelvl said:
Most programs are blocked by companies because they require huge chunks of the bandwidth. Take streaming video for example or torrent services. All of those take huge chunks of bandwidth. By allowing an “open internet†one of 3 things will happen.
1 a limit to the amount of data you can use each month with hefty overage.
Yes, option number one is what will happen. Carriers will institute tiered data plans w/ increasing price points for increasing bandwidth quotas.
This is nothing to decry. It will allow the vast majority of subs to select data plans that better fit their particular needs, rather than be forced to accept "one size fits all" data plans. In fact, some wil...
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Disrespect said:
Sprint sold its towers to some other company. I cant remember the name but it was on phonescoop. They no longer maintenance their towers. So that will be left up to them and their budget. Sprint was two steps ahead of the game. 😉
You are correct Sprint sold its towers, in other words sprint sold the plot of land it was leasing and the physical structures that stand upon them. Sprint still has to pay for all the back hall (data lines) and facilities (switches router servers ect) to run their network. Most people have no idea what goes into running a wireless company and how expensive the network alone costs. Since we are talking about Sprint, last year 7 out of every 10$ that Sprint s...
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