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May 15, 2006
Daniel Berninger: "If it's not neutral it's not Internet"
Daniel Berninger: If it's not neutral it's not Internet
"The opposition to net neutrality arises like all regulatory debates as themeans to raise prices, but people in the US already pay more for lessbandwidth than citizens of Europe and Asia."
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Posted by jeff on May 15, 2006 10:08 AM | Permalink
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What confuses people is the low price broadband connections with hidden limits. For example, you can get a 256k/64k broadband connection here (either aDSL or cable) for 100 NIS ($22). The problem is that it is limted to 3 gigabytes of data a month. This comes out to 10k bits per second if you spread it out over 24 hours and 30 days.
If you go over the limit the "fines" are extremely high.
The 3 gigabyte limit is in effect for home connections up to and including 1.5m/160k.
Geoff.
Posted by: Geoff Mendelson at May 15, 2006 01:14 PM
“people in the US already pay more for lessbandwidth than citizens of Europe and Asia” — really? Considering your phone prices, I’d say dial-up is cheaper. Considering your value added taxes / sales taxes (or whatever they’re called), I’d guess that if not for anything else, cable and DSL must be cheaper for that reason, and, for example, you get the same thing from SBC for 28$ as from T-Online.de for 35€. So like, what is he talking about?
Posted by: Ralesk / Henrik Pauli at May 15, 2006 12:17 PM