Shaddows - 11:24 am on Mar 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm a net neutralist, but I AM concerned what the answer is to the fundamental question:

Who is going to pay for the massive infrastucture investments needed to keep the net ticking over while multimedia content explodes?

I mean, ISPs should do it, but frankly their business models are broken. They were chasing market share, not revenue. Now they have the users, the content they are accessing is more bandwidth-intensive than was forseen. As mentioned before, TRAFFIC SHAPING is already employed, as 5% of users take up 95% of the ISPs' avialable bandwidth during peak times. Clearly its not fair on the vast majority, but this unfairness is caused by the misselling of the ISP in the first play, not the people who bought the service and are tryig to make full use of it.

But the ISP bandwidth advertising is another issue. The question here is WHO WILL PAY, not WHO SHOULD PAY.

Edit- fixed tags

[edited by: Shaddows at 11:26 am (utc) on Mar. 11, 2009]