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India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals
knorthern knight writes "Story on The Register.
America's biggest content providers could face a toll to enter India cyberspace, if plans mooted by the Indian ISP trade association bear fruit.
Although the Internet Service Providers Association of India is split on the issue, several of the larger ISPs want to block access to eBay, MSN or Yahoo! unless the prociders pay a toll.
'In order to increase revenue streams we should ask [the portals] to pay if they want traffic on their sites from India,' reports the Hindustani Times."
Isn't he average network bandwidth for a user at home in India like 28.8kbps??
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You'd switch to other ISP? Even if it was twice as expensive? For few shitty portals?! This blocking thing is very good idea.. ISPs would then get money from internet giants like ebay, yahoo, ... instead of users. It makes internet cheaper for us.
I can't believe im even responding to this, but there is a reason for that, its so that people don't do first post crap because no one wants to read FIRST POST!!!!!, well im sure someone does, maybe I should setup a mirror of the /. front page with my own SQL back end for those that wish to have a first second... ninety ninth post competition. I'm hoping that your post was a joke
I can't believe I'm responding either, but no matter what the delay ppl are still going to post. First posts usually dissapear after 5 mins anyway with more important stuff
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Seriously, GOOD RIDDANCE. Have you used Yahoo chat in the last two years? If so, you know what a nuisance all those belligerant, retarded cyber-seekers from India (and pakistan and bangladesh) can be.
They will not be missed by the other users, for the most part.