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user-inactivated  ·  2339 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AndrĂ© Staltz: The Web Began Dying in 2014, Here's How

Remember when internet plans first came out and you're were alloted so many base hours a month, like old cell phone plans? I wonder if either of those will come back.





kleinbl00  ·  2339 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I remember everyone with any sense didn't go for those plans in a major way, and all the providers that didn't budget that way ate their lunch. This is something people forget: Comcast, Verizon and Charter don't give a fuck about sqeezing you they want to squeeze Netflix, Amazon, Google and Spotify.

I'm honestly eager to see that. I would love for Google to have a financial incentive to roll Google Fiber out nationwide because they're not interested in Charter making margins. I would love for Amazon to have to raise prices in order to compete on a level playing field.

I wanna see the FAANG stocks having to pay their cash reserves in order to make their customers happy.