Net Neutrality: Will Web+$ End Free Net Access?

dcstone writes “
At hearings held on Tuesday in Washington, DC, broadband providers Verizon, AT&T and others asked Congress for laws that would allow broadband providers to charge content providers a premium for unimpeded access to their Internet customers. Google is the primary target of the broadband providers’ ire (see Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google’s Free Lunch) but anyone who relies upon the Internet to provide or receive services should wonder how long it will be before the telecom giants’ tiered service proposal will affect them. (And by the way, regarding that “free lunch” – don’t ISP subscribers already pay beaucoup bucks to the providers for access to the web?)”

February 9, 2006 by Uncategorized 7

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7 Responses

  1. GregS* says:
    February 9, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    “their”?
    “…to charge content providers a premium for unimpeded access to their Internet customers.”

    If they mess with *my* unimpeded access to Internet sites how long do they think I’m going stay a customer?

    Cripes. I forget how much I pay to own the address http://www.shush.ws but I pay $15 a month to host it and I pay close to $50 a month for broadband access at home. Now the bastards want me to pay to see myself. (*&%#$%^)*&^

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  2. Anna says:
    February 9, 2006 at 11:40 pm

    Re:”their”?
    If you’re paying more than $15/yr for your domain name, then you’re paying too much, so that part comes out to a little over a dollar per month.

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  3. GregS* says:
    February 9, 2006 at 11:50 pm

    Re:”their”?
    I pay $15 a month for hosting, I pay $35 a year for domain registration. Who’s charging less then $15?

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  4. Curmudgeony says:
    February 9, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    Re:”their”?
    Blake’s Lishost is $10 per month. I get my domain name from Go daddy for about 8.99 a year.

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  5. Anna says:
    February 10, 2006 at 12:11 am

    Re:”their”?
    My host charges $15/yr. I could shop around and get it for less, but it’s convenient and not all that much more. Oh, and my hosting is $7.77/mo.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    February 10, 2006 at 12:37 am

    Re:”their”?
    Yeah, what Curmudgeony said. I have a ton of Domain names with Godaddy who seems to be doing a decent of it, and is rather cheap. LISNews isn’t on LISHost now, but there’s ’bout 100 other librarian sites there @$10 a month.

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  7. GregS* says:
    February 10, 2006 at 3:08 am

    Re:”their”?
    I’ll have to scope out GoDaddy though I think Register.com just charges me extra for the redirect. LISHost doesn’t have Frontpage extensions but the $15 hosting is fine by me.

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