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Net Neutrality -
05-12-2008, 02:27 PM
I've read an article in the PC World Magazine about ISPs needing to invest more to upgrade their servers for increased bandwidth in the near future.
"Net Neutrality refers to the principle that all Internet traffic be treated equally" , based on the article by Tom Spring in PC World Mag.
The article dealt with how ISPs would need to upgrade their servers in the near future with the rapid increase of bandwidth-hungry software applications. Users of these application are not practically mindful that using these applications (such as movie downloads, video games, online backup and streaming audio and videos) could inevitably affect the bandwidth pipes of their servers.
You might not be aware of it, but maybe while you're downloading handfuls of audios from BitTorrent, a frantic internet subscriber down the block would be wondering why his internet connection is so slow.
Every one who is against net neutrality says that ISPs should charge more to subscribers who are using more bandwidth than the ones who are not.
Net Neutrality supporters like Clinton and Obama, literally agrees that a subscriber who uses the internet merely to check his emails would pay the same amount as the one who uses the internet for online gaming and video downloading.
What if, indeed, the ISPs would charge more for bandwidth-hungry users, then the ones who are not would be paying the same price? What if this situation would occur in the Philippines? Would you agree that you would be paying the same when you are not really bandwidth hogging? What's your view?
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