Who should pay for Internet?
I have always wondered.. why I am paying so much for Internet for my home computer. Is it justified.. I don’t make any money using internet.. in fact I am helping others make money.
I ask should it be us the people who use Internet to browse site or should it be the websites that we browse. It is perfectly logical for the web sites to pay for the cost of internet.. after all its mostly their data that is traveling in wires. Googles (I have nothing against google.. in fact I adore it but I work for a its competitor ) and Amazons of the world are making money through internet and we are the one who pay to use the internet. I am surprised that no telecom company has started asking for some part of cost from them.. They should start charging Google for using their bandwidth.. for long Google has been riding it freely.. its time for them to share some cost of maintaining internet. We wrongly assume Internet is free. It is not.. there is cost to maintain those networks. If they refuse to the telecom companies like AT&T, Verizon or for that matter VSNL of India can block Google to travel through their wires or to make it more frustrating let them travel slowly, this will force Google and other internet companies to pay for some cost of Internet. Of course this will be beneficial to the telecom companies but I am hoping they will pass on some of it to us the customers. It is like cell phones in US.. you are using our network pay money.. you use you pay.. I am not saying I do not want to pay for internet but at least reduce some amount and let it be shared by the web sites that travel through those wires.
Why just let Googles and Amazon make profit.. they should share it with companies like AT&T who provide all this network and still have nothing to show for it. Of course I am sure this will happen sometime if not sooner… government will pass the law. I am sure one day all these telecom companies will rule the world again..


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