Wednesday, December 22, 2010
soupsoup: Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation’s internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country’s largest cellular companies showed off a different vision of the future: one where you’ll have to pay extra to watch YouTube or use Facebook.The companies, Allot Communications and Openet — suppliers to large wireless companies including AT&T and Verizon — showed off a new product in a web seminar Tuesday, which included aPowerPoint presentation (1.5-MB .pdf) that was sent to Wired by a trusted source. The idea? Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using Facebook, Skype or Netflix. For instance, in the seventh slide of the above PowerPoint, a Vodafone user would be charged two cents per MB for using Facebook, three euros a month to use Skype and $0.50 monthly for a speed-limited version of YouTube. But traffic to Vodafone’s services would be free, allowing the mobile carrier to create video services that could undercut NetFlix on price. Hat tip to Steven who reminded me to reblog this. Most people won’t care about this until they start actually having to pay and by then, it will be too late. This will really curb my facebookery. But guess what, fools?! the nerds that came up with facebook and napster will find a way around those bloodsuckers’ bloodsuckery. (I hope???)

soupsoup:

Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation’s internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country’s largest cellular companies showed off a different vision of the future: one where you’ll have to pay extra to watch YouTube or use Facebook.The companies, Allot Communications and Openet — suppliers to large wireless companies including AT&T and Verizon — showed off a new product in a web seminar Tuesday, which included aPowerPoint presentation (1.5-MB .pdf) that was sent to Wired by a trusted source.

The idea? Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using Facebook, Skype or Netflix. For instance, in the seventh slide of the above PowerPoint, a Vodafone user would be charged two cents per MB for using Facebook, three euros a month to use Skype and $0.50 monthly for a speed-limited version of YouTube. But traffic to Vodafone’s services would be free, allowing the mobile carrier to create video services that could undercut NetFlix on price.

Hat tip to Steven who reminded me to reblog this.

Most people won’t care about this until they start actually having to pay and by then, it will be too late.

This will really curb my facebookery. But guess what, fools?! the nerds that came up with facebook and napster will find a way around those bloodsuckers’ bloodsuckery. (I hope???)

Posted at 11:14 PM 209 notes Reblogged from rand0mflora

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    welcome to my fucking world. those fuckers would do anything to mess with us and squeeze us for anything they can come...
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    A few thoughts about Net Neutrality
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    Not that I want it to get to there, but there’s got to be some way around this even if they try to charge for it, right?...
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    What.. in… the.. fuckery…
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    This will really curb my facebookery. But guess what, fools?! the nerds that came up with facebook and napster will find...
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    When I read that post yesterday about NN I was like ‘well, guess we have to start over on the whole ‘internet’ thing
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    Let’s keep the internet free, y’all.
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