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In reply to the discussion: FCC boss backs usage-based pricing for cable Internet access [View all]Dokkie
(1,688 posts)60. yes, I will definitely get a cut
in my monthly bill cos all I do online is spend 30mins to 1 hr on DU and at the same time listening to my youtube videos. Its bare bone minimum so laugh all you want.
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Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Youtube, etc need to be screaming bloody murder over this. n/t
Ed Suspicious
May 2012
#5
No doubt cable operators' streaming services won't count against the quota. n/t
BadgerKid
May 2012
#20
Maybe not to begin with but they will eventually come after them as well, that's how
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#27
It is amazing how our government agencies find ways to screw the American Public.
lookingfortruth
May 2012
#10
Usage-based pricing would permit the rich to use the internet more than the poor.
JDPriestly
May 2012
#17
Just for the record, Genachowski was appointed by Obama in 2009 to head the FCC.
Fumesucker
May 2012
#19
Public transportation. Discount passes. Both exist to get the poor/working class to work.
Fearless
May 2012
#64
You report back on that great big price cut the cable companies are giving ya, okay?
villager
May 2012
#40
And yet bandwidth per capita in the US lags far behind may other developed nations..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#57