Your deluded. The difference between dial up and cable is that cable is faster and dial up eats your phone line. Slow broadband is the new dial up. Dial up is going to the land of the buggy whip. Dial up is advertising like mad... the reason for doing so it one of two reasons.
Why do I feel like I am explaining dry sheets to a bed-wetter? This isn't about dial up vrs broadband. The pipe (Dial/broadband/two-can-on-a-string) is irrelevant; the pipe changes constantly from the venerable semaphore flags to radio to dial-up to broadband to laser relay. It is the control of the content that is at issue; not the pipe that the content flows through. It is obvious that you have not read the source material thoroughly.
Now, as you so brazenly stated, corporations are out to make money. That is true. They also have to keep their clients happy or they will find another service provider. That is not necessarily true; as it is now possible for a single corporation to be the only game in town for internet services. The smaller the population center you hail from, the more difficult it is to find an alternate provider.
Now, on the subject of corporations and money, here is another interesting bit of information from the IS front. Once you control what is flowing through the pipe, you are responsible for what is flowing through the pipe. The legal implications of this are very far reaching; especially as most US laws on pornography are based around a fatuous notion called contemporary community standards. This means that you are enforcing a law on a nebulous, undefined, concept. Expect very loud and vocal groups to be loudly protesting thing that they dont like; and the internet providers moving to block them for everyone. Likewise political dissent; social dissent or alternate news feeds. This isnt paranoia at all; merely good business. The article cited earlier shows some rather piquant examples of this behavior and this is before legislation was introduced to allow such behavior.
E-mail does cost money.
No, the internet service costs money. Yo pay the same currently if you send 0 e-mails or 500,000,000 e-mails a day. If we are paying per e-mail sent... that is when we pay for e-mail. Hence a simple counter of sending text message file via an instant messenger. E-mail is only one thing you can do to get your moneys worth. If it did your original point is nonsensical, as youd be openly complaining that each e-mail will cost money when it already did. The connection costs money.
Yep. More sheets to a bed-wetter. You do not pay the same currently if you send 0 e-mails or 5000,000,000 e-mails. Your contract is for a certain amount of bandwidth; at a certain speed; for a certain period. How you use it is completely up to you. You are still paying for it in one form or another. Your IM Text Message is the same deal. You are paying for the pipe you place the message in; not the message itself; 500,000,000 text messages are the same as 500,0000,000 e-mail messages.
Do you have any proof that they aren't going to make cheaper broadband? Do you have anything, but conjecture that the current model is the slow stuff? So far your showing more confusion over the market forces then solid issues.
There is always going to be a faster, cheaper, solution in the future; that is the nature of the technology. Once again you have missed the whole point of the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act. The rules lobbied for by the various corporations are not being laid out with the intention of increasing competition. They are laid of with the intent to craft an environment that they can profit more from. It is law that is not written for the benefit of the consumer, but for the benefit of the corporations.
Shayne
Why do I feel like I am explaining dry sheets to a bed-wetter? This isn't about dial up vrs broadband. The pipe (Dial/broadband/two-can-on-a-string) is irrelevant; the pipe changes constantly from the venerable semaphore flags to radio to dial-up to broadband to laser relay. It is the control of the content that is at issue; not the pipe that the content flows through. It is obvious that you have not read the source material thoroughly.
Now, as you so brazenly stated, corporations are out to make money. That is true. They also have to keep their clients happy or they will find another service provider. That is not necessarily true; as it is now possible for a single corporation to be the only game in town for internet services. The smaller the population center you hail from, the more difficult it is to find an alternate provider.
Now, on the subject of corporations and money, here is another interesting bit of information from the IS front. Once you control what is flowing through the pipe, you are responsible for what is flowing through the pipe. The legal implications of this are very far reaching; especially as most US laws on pornography are based around a fatuous notion called contemporary community standards. This means that you are enforcing a law on a nebulous, undefined, concept. Expect very loud and vocal groups to be loudly protesting thing that they dont like; and the internet providers moving to block them for everyone. Likewise political dissent; social dissent or alternate news feeds. This isnt paranoia at all; merely good business. The article cited earlier shows some rather piquant examples of this behavior and this is before legislation was introduced to allow such behavior.
E-mail does cost money.
No, the internet service costs money. Yo pay the same currently if you send 0 e-mails or 500,000,000 e-mails a day. If we are paying per e-mail sent... that is when we pay for e-mail. Hence a simple counter of sending text message file via an instant messenger. E-mail is only one thing you can do to get your moneys worth. If it did your original point is nonsensical, as youd be openly complaining that each e-mail will cost money when it already did. The connection costs money.
Yep. More sheets to a bed-wetter. You do not pay the same currently if you send 0 e-mails or 5000,000,000 e-mails. Your contract is for a certain amount of bandwidth; at a certain speed; for a certain period. How you use it is completely up to you. You are still paying for it in one form or another. Your IM Text Message is the same deal. You are paying for the pipe you place the message in; not the message itself; 500,000,000 text messages are the same as 500,0000,000 e-mail messages.
Do you have any proof that they aren't going to make cheaper broadband? Do you have anything, but conjecture that the current model is the slow stuff? So far your showing more confusion over the market forces then solid issues.
There is always going to be a faster, cheaper, solution in the future; that is the nature of the technology. Once again you have missed the whole point of the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act. The rules lobbied for by the various corporations are not being laid out with the intention of increasing competition. They are laid of with the intent to craft an environment that they can profit more from. It is law that is not written for the benefit of the consumer, but for the benefit of the corporations.
Shayne