What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
Or if Netflix was to be able to afford it, they would have to raise their prices and pass the cost onto the customers - the same customers we are claiming can't afford it. Clearly that's not possible.
So the bottom line is that the ISPs don't have a working business model. And there is only one group at potential fault for that, the ISPs.
So while Verizon is big enough to force Netflix to pay I am not. BUT.... reading NN more carefully the intention was to use TITLE II to set zero tier rates on a case by case basis.
So this is the reason I changed my mind yesterday. They could make my rate zero on an interconnect. Now I can compete and stay in business.
They just werent sure how they were going to do it, and made some statements about how they would make their mind up as they went. Making the actual law more of a starting point that didnt change much in the beginning.
What? You changed your mind because you could use Title II to your advantage to steal from Verizon, assuming the FCC made you a zero rate on the interconnect? or did I completely misread that?
Sounds like you are misreading it.
Also, not involved in any ISP anymore.
In short I will see this
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I agree with Net Neutrality. It was headed in the right direction.
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It wasnt the wild west before this in 2015 there were many protections in place
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The complaints about throttling P2P and netflix were not even solved by the original legislation
Overall, I agree NN should have stayed. I also have found some questionable statements from Pai.
And is no one up in arms about all the Zero Rating stuff going on. Free Hulu with Sprint and so on?
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@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
And is no one up in arms about all the Zero Rating stuff going on. Free Hulu with Sprint and so on?
I've said before that I'm not okay with that stuff. I wasn't aware of that particular one as neither Hulu nor Sprint are important enough for most people to hear about them.
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@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
And is no one up in arms about all the Zero Rating stuff going on. Free Hulu with Sprint and so on?
Those of us paying attention are, yes.
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I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
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Was just one I saw today.
Does Tmo and Netflix concern you?
Or the possibility of Verison and Netflix?
Or AT&T and free DirecTV
all things that are going on now, and dont count against your bandwidth?
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
Why did your fees NOT go up? The customer clearly is getting more in 2012 than they were in 2000.
Kind of difficult when everyone else's fees were going down.
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@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
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@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
Why did your fees NOT go up? The customer clearly is getting more in 2012 than they were in 2000.
Kind of difficult when everyone else's fees were going down.
in your same area?
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
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@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
No, doing family plan. Its way cheaper than any other. But still, it doesn't work like that. The only possible way it could be cheaper is if we used less than 2 GB.
My wife uses a lot more than me, but still we'll never see the 22 GB limit or whatever it is.
This is me so far this month... the 2gb limit I have set is meaningless now that it's unlimited. However, if i do stay below 2gb, the bill is 10 dollars cheaper.
Now WiFi on the otherhand.... that's up there lol.
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
Why did your fees NOT go up? The customer clearly is getting more in 2012 than they were in 2000.
Kind of difficult when everyone else's fees were going down.
in your same area?
Brighthouse, Time Warner, Charter, Comcast, Spectrum - whatever you want to call them on a given day.
In the time this year since I left that business Spectrum has doubled everyone's speeds here for free to 100mb, and they have cut the pricing down to $50 or less, and made similar offers to businesses.
They are in the process of what you would call a limited asset purchase now, where we could have been bought last year.
I could tell all kinds of tales of yore about the WISP and DSL. Early 2000's was the most fun because you were actually bringing 10 and 15mb service out to people who only had dial up options. It really hasn't been fun or profitable for a while. I don't exactly consider any ISP I have been in to be a "greedy big company".
I am happy to have moved on and have found mid-market enterprise voice to be a pretty good market. I plan on sticking to this for a long time.
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@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
In the time this year since I left that business Spectrum has doubled everyone's speeds here for free to 100mb, and they have cut the pricing down to $50 or less, and made similar offers to businesses.
If they keep that up, they'll be comparable to the EU within a decade or two!
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
On all of these unlimited deals the actual result is that, during peak hours, they prioritize spectrum access differently. I have found with unlimited you can hit over 30GB and still be getting top speeds most of the day.
Its not a hard cap and throttle like the MVNO and smaller guys do. Sprint started with this type of unlimited deal and ATT/Verizon seems to have followed suit. I can not speak directly to TMo on that though.
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@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
No, doing family plan. Its way cheaper than any other. But still, it doesn't work like that. The only possible way it could be cheaper is if we used less than 2 GB.
My wife uses a lot more than me, but still we'll never see the 22 GB limit or whatever it is.
This is me so far this month... the 2gb limit I have set is meaningless now that it's unlimited. However, if i do stay below 2gb, the bill is 10 dollars cheaper.
Now WiFi on the otherhand.... that's up there lol.
not exactly correct. In the current setup that TMo offers, you're right. But TMo could offer you a cost per GB plan like Google Fi does and you probably save something if not a lot.
In order to charge flat rates, many people have to over pay for actual usage to make up the difference for the those that use a ton.
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They are taking on cable tv next.
https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/940961711313469440?s=09
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
No, doing family plan. Its way cheaper than any other. But still, it doesn't work like that. The only possible way it could be cheaper is if we used less than 2 GB.
My wife uses a lot more than me, but still we'll never see the 22 GB limit or whatever it is.
This is me so far this month... the 2gb limit I have set is meaningless now that it's unlimited. However, if i do stay below 2gb, the bill is 10 dollars cheaper.
Now WiFi on the otherhand.... that's up there lol.
not exactly correct. In the current setup that TMo offers, you're right. But TMo could offer you a cost per GB plan like Google Fi does and you probably save something if not a lot.
In order to charge flat rates, many people have to over pay for actual usage to make up the difference for the those that use a ton.
It would have to be like $4gb to match what I got now
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@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
No, doing family plan. Its way cheaper than any other. But still, it doesn't work like that. The only possible way it could be cheaper is if we used less than 2 GB.
My wife uses a lot more than me, but still we'll never see the 22 GB limit or whatever it is.
This is me so far this month... the 2gb limit I have set is meaningless now that it's unlimited. However, if i do stay below 2gb, the bill is 10 dollars cheaper.
Now WiFi on the otherhand.... that's up there lol.
not exactly correct. In the current setup that TMo offers, you're right. But TMo could offer you a cost per GB plan like Google Fi does and you probably save something if not a lot.
In order to charge flat rates, many people have to over pay for actual usage to make up the difference for the those that use a ton.
It would have to be like $4gb to match what I got now
And they are still making money... we have no idea how much money. 90% of that could be profit, or 1% could be.
We know that Google Fi is $10/GB, so we know the price can be below that.
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@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@bigbear said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dashrender said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@tim_g said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I wouldn't use Hulu even if it was free... let alone pay for Sprint. I'm perfectly happy with T-Mobile.
I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime. All I need. I already have unlimited internet with T-Mobile.
And even TMo isn't unlimited, because at 22 GB, they throttle if THEY choose to.
Lol, I'm lucky to hit 3 or 4 GB a month.
then you are drastically overpaying. For TMo to be smart, they need to anticipate you to use 22 GB and charge you based that on that usage, instead of charging you based upon you real issue.
No, doing family plan. Its way cheaper than any other. But still, it doesn't work like that. The only possible way it could be cheaper is if we used less than 2 GB.
My wife uses a lot more than me, but still we'll never see the 22 GB limit or whatever it is.
This is me so far this month... the 2gb limit I have set is meaningless now that it's unlimited. However, if i do stay below 2gb, the bill is 10 dollars cheaper.
Now WiFi on the otherhand.... that's up there lol.
not exactly correct. In the current setup that TMo offers, you're right. But TMo could offer you a cost per GB plan like Google Fi does and you probably save something if not a lot.
In order to charge flat rates, many people have to over pay for actual usage to make up the difference for the those that use a ton.
It would have to be like $4gb to match what I got now
And they are still making money... we have no idea how much money. 90% of that could be profit, or 1% could be.
We know that Google Fi is $10/GB, so we know the price can be below that.
Even in the 1,000,000 GB range you are close to $1 per 100MB. That is down from about $15 to $18 a few years ago.
In 2014 I know Tmo was paying $1.80 per 100MB or $18/GB to networks when their users were roaming outside Tmo coverage.
So that is why you are now seeing the carrier networks start to be more attractive than the MVNO and Google Fi options
Google fi is $20 for talk/text + $60 = $80 for 6GB
ATT Prepaid is $40 for 6GB and talk/text
AT&T also allows data rollover if you have a slow month. I end up using all my daa these days.
I setup a prepaid family plan with AT&T when I left Fi and this year they started a family plan...
Me $40 for 6GB
Wife $35 for 6gb
Son $30 for 6GB
Daughter $25 for 6GB
Daughter $20 for 6GB
Son $15 for 6gBI get one bill, everyone gets their own 6GB and their own rollover and unlimited talk/text. After 6GB it just throttles.
