Get Ready For It
The Premium Internet has been approved , and while it’s a US law now any of us who access American content, or access content via an American carrier, are going to see it as well.
The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday
What does this mean? Well, basically it means that some websites are gonna come up crisp and quick, and others will drag, depending on how much the website owner is willing to pay for the privilege of having a fast loading website.
Thanks for posting about this. I had posted about it while it was ongoing, and had actively supported ALL campaigns for keeping Net neutrality. It is too bad we lost, and I fear we’ll be affected here too. BTW, will people who now have high-speed be affected?
Of course we will, although the people on dial up, those in rural and remote with less than high speed/broadband capability, and those who cannot afford a true high speed/broadband connection will suffer more.
As soon as providers are able to segment their networks and reserve broadband for those clients able to pay the most we are all going to see some sites and services explode on to our monitors and others drag on to the point that we give up and go elsewhere.
Lets look at what could well happen using blogs, indie media, and mainstream American news as examples.
While Fox and CNN can afford to buy a big old chunk of reserved or on-demand bandwidth from their providers for services and sites, my host, and indie media hosts probably will not – what info is gonna load faster?
…. and what’s gonna happen to that developer in his or her basement who figures out a way to offer voice over IP that may rival what Microsoft or Google offer?