Doubling broadband speeds every 2-3 years? if only they actually did that, i might have some sympathy for them. I get about 15Mbit. This is the same speed i have gotten for approximately the last 6 years. the only thing that is doubling every 2-3 years is the amount they bill me.
>NetFlix and YouTube do not pay the ISPs anything.
bullshit. You think google and netflix have teams of ninjas that go and splice wires into your ISPs lines? There are long standing agreements regarding how the exchange of data happens between Tier-1 providers, and how much it costs to send data to somebody else's network. Netflix is not getting a free ride. The consumer ISPs are trying to get paid twice.
Doubling the infrastructure required to deliver customer bandwidth demands -- not speeds. For example 2 years ago maybe the average customer had utilization between 8-11PM of 4Mbit/sec. Today it's maybe 8Mbit/sec. That requires your ISP to deliver 2x as much bandwidth during those hours regardless if the speed package has changed or not.
>NetFlix and YouTube do not pay the ISPs anything.
bullshit. You think google and netflix have teams of ninjas that go and splice wires into your ISPs lines? There are long standing agreements regarding how the exchange of data happens between Tier-1 providers, and how much it costs to send data to somebody else's network. Netflix is not getting a free ride. The consumer ISPs are trying to get paid twice.