The telecommunication companies have been running some ads on TV lately that are flat out lies. The first time I saw one I couldn't believe it, how can they blatantly like to consumers like that?
For those who don't know what Net Neutrality is, It is the telcos trying to get a slice of the pie that they don't own, nor should they, thats why they broke up ma' Bell all those years ago, same thing is happening here, just with the internet instead of phone lines. Basically every company out there that has a website pays money to their internet service provider for the bandwidth that is used to serve the website to web surfers. Every consumer pays a monthly bill to their internet service provider that allows a certain amount of bandwidth to view websites. What is going on is that the telecos realize that for years they have been adding surcharges, and equipment charges, and all sorts of stuff to penny pinch the consumer. They have now realized they want to do this with the internet. Even though the companies and the consumers have already paid for the cost for equipment, bandwidth, etc to their service providers, they want to now charge for the specific kind of traffic that is traveling over their lines. Remember, YOU and the COMPANIES have already paid for the cost for traffic to travel over these lines. So you use company A for your internet, the place you want to go to uses company B for their internet. If company A does not have an agreement in place with company B to allow traffic to cross lines you can't see anything that uses company B for internet service. Basically each company would charge other companies for any traffic that doesn't originate from their own service. Thus allowing the telcos to charge once for you to connect to the internet, the companies that have websites to connect to the internet and then charging everyone one again for a second time to actually putting traffic on it. Its like paying to drive on a toll road but you can only drive on the toll road if you buy all the gas for your car at the toll booth which they sell, even though the gas you bought down the road works just fine. Pretty stupid huh?
Here is a youtube video that sums up what I explained before. It would be great if this were made into a commercial that would be shown on nationally syndicated TV to let people who aren't tech oriented know what the companies are really trying to do, and show people how desperate the phone companies are.
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