Internet Providers Want Heavy Users to Pay More and More …
April 20, 2009
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No, ISPs who are also cable TV companies want to stifle competition by making it too expensive for their cable TV customers to get video over IP (such as Hulu, YouTube, and so forth). The entire TWC debacle was a blatantly transparent attempt to lock out the competition. The end result will be legislation that prevents such moves in the future. The immediate result is the exodus of Internet users from TWC to ISPs who are not also cable TV vendors.
What is unfortunate is that in many areas of the US that are not on the ‘main’ city list find it impossible to get coverage from smaller ISP’s anymore, at least if it isn’t dial up. I would love to have someone other then Qwest or Comcast, two toxic companies, to cover me. But I am in an area of Utah that seems to fall out of availability areas for anyone else I find.