True - so the consumers that are actually consuming the bandwidth have to pay as opposed to the grandma that only wants access for email - I still don't see the problem.
That makes no sense. You are complaining that multi-billion dollar companies will have to foot the bill for infrastructure upgrades instead of consumers? And somehow this is a bad thing?
An awful lot of hard-working Americans depend on the government to protect them from abusive monopolies like the telcos.
I actually had to laugh at that. How, exactly, does government protect consumers from a monopoly that they created?
If that is true why have DSL providers been lowering rates in order to attract customers? The fact is that nearly every consumer of broadband has at least one additional option.
How is this fundamentally different than the premiums that networks charge for PrimeTime TV commercials? The cost of the Google ad placement is not the per-click charge but the aggregate of all click throughs over a period of time.
If you have a business that only gets 100 clicks in a month you are going to have to pay $1/click to get the same exposure as someone that gets 1000 clicks a month and pays $.10/click. This is the exact same price for the real-estate. The primary difference between Google and TV is that Google is fairer - you only have to pay when your advertisement is successful in generating business.
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True - so the consumers that are actually consuming the bandwidth have to pay as opposed to the grandma that only wants access for email - I still don't see the problem.
That makes no sense. You are complaining that multi-billion dollar companies will have to foot the bill for infrastructure upgrades instead of consumers? And somehow this is a bad thing?
Certainly - but why push for more of the same. Fight for deregulation of those areas not more of it.
An awful lot of hard-working Americans depend on the government to protect them from abusive monopolies like the telcos. I actually had to laugh at that. How, exactly, does government protect consumers from a monopoly that they created?
If that is true why have DSL providers been lowering rates in order to attract customers? The fact is that nearly every consumer of broadband has at least one additional option.
If Wal-Mart is willing to sell GTA (even after the pr0n incident) it doesn't seem that they are setting the bar too high.
How is this fundamentally different than the premiums that networks charge for PrimeTime TV commercials? The cost of the Google ad placement is not the per-click charge but the aggregate of all click throughs over a period of time.
If you have a business that only gets 100 clicks in a month you are going to have to pay $1/click to get the same exposure as someone that gets 1000 clicks a month and pays $.10/click. This is the exact same price for the real-estate. The primary difference between Google and TV is that Google is fairer - you only have to pay when your advertisement is successful in generating business.