The end result of this is going to be bad for the US consumer. It's already starting to happen. Many broadband companies used to provide unlimited bandwidth. They started traffic shaping, cutting down bit torrent traffic and other bandwidth hog applications. This was done to make sure services were available to everyone. That started the uproar.
Now they are starting to put a caps on total bandwidth. Eventually you'll start getting charged by the Gb and you'll pay more during prime time than off hours. Just like phone service has been doing for years. Sometimes the voices in my head, the ones wearing tin foil hats, tell me this was the plan from the beginning and they are using net neutrality as the excuse.
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