Wednesday, March 20, 2013


Being required to use the internet for at least 5 hours a day makes me support network neutrality. I feel as if I could not get everything I need to get done for school and work if I was limited to a certain amount of bandwidth and/or time. What is net neutrality? In a nutshell, it is the idea the internet providers must allow equal access to the internet content and everyone will be charged the same, no matter how much is used.  Around 5 percent of the people on internet provider Comcast’s network use 70 percent of the capacity (Google 2008). Maybe internet regulators should concentrate more on that than stiffening  something that has great economic value. If internet providers charge higher fees for larger amounts of bandwidth people will lessen their usage of their service. With the zero discriminatory surcharge (ZDS) network providers should not offer deals to one content provider unless they offer the same deal to all providers (Felten 2008).
Felten. E., (2008) Three flavors of net neutrality.
(2008). An alternative to 'net neutrality'. Wall Street Journal.

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