> Net Neutrality turns the question of do senders or receivers pay telecommunications providers for the traffic on the Internet into a simple answer, the receivers pay the telecom companies.
Actually customers (whether it's you, me, or Netflix) pay for both sending and receiving. A service provider is just sending more and a local Telecom customer is just receiving more.
The issue is of Net Neutrality isn't whether the sender or receivers pays. Netflix plays for it's bandwidth and you pay for yours. It's whether Telecoms can degrade or add a surcharge on top of what is already paid only for certain companies or applications.
> But video is growing and the networks underlying the Internet need major upgrades to keep up.
The Telecom providers don't want to pay for upgrades so you use their cheap dumb pipe to get content from their competitors. They want video on the Internet to be terrible so they can sell you expensive cable packages or they want to tax it so either way they make more money.
> Net Neutrality turns the question of do senders or receivers pay telecommunications providers for the traffic on the Internet into a simple answer, the receivers pay the telecom companies.
Actually customers (whether it's you, me, or Netflix) pay for both sending and receiving. A service provider is just sending more and a local Telecom customer is just receiving more.
The issue is of Net Neutrality isn't whether the sender or receivers pays. Netflix plays for it's bandwidth and you pay for yours. It's whether Telecoms can degrade or add a surcharge on top of what is already paid only for certain companies or applications.
> But video is growing and the networks underlying the Internet need major upgrades to keep up.
The Telecom providers don't want to pay for upgrades so you use their cheap dumb pipe to get content from their competitors. They want video on the Internet to be terrible so they can sell you expensive cable packages or they want to tax it so either way they make more money.