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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 08:15 AM EST |
That's a very good and important point. We're already using a caller pays
system.
We call Google, then Google calls us back with our search results.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 12:44 PM EST |
The origin of this problem is the unsustainable business model of most of the
ISPs. They offer supposedly unlimited connections and compete with each other on
price. It's as if every restaurant in a town was an all you can eat one - prices
would just get lower and lower until they stared going bust. The ISPs need to
fix their broken business model, but any that move to metered access will lose
subscribers so none will do it.
Anyway, sender pays. What if Google/etc started charging ISPs for receiving
requests. ISPs presumably want some sort of pricing flexibility which would
enable Google to value a request for a service as greater than the ISP valued
the result of that request? ISPs could suddenly find themselves paying Google
for search results/YouTube views, etc. Or they might block requests from ISPs
who won't enter into a no cost for either side agreement. What would happen to
ISPs if popular services like Google's started replying to requests with a page
stating "Your ISP doesn't provide access to our services. Try someone
else."?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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