So as many of you know the current head of the FCC has proposed new regulations that more or less go directly against the concept of net neutrality by allowing internet service providers to charge companies who are willing to pay more for faster access to the consumer.



Earlier this week however Tom Wheeler has expressed distaste for Verizon's plan to throttle speeds for their users with older unlimited data plans. He claims that unless ISPs are slowing speeds in relation to what their current infrastructure can handle as opposed to doing so because you want to gain a larger profit it won't be allowed.



Now of course can choose whether or not Tom Wheeler is being genuine with this claim (personally I don't), but what do you think of this concept? I honestly think that if an ISP doesn't have enough server space to accommodate their customers that they should use a portion of their massive profits to build a better infrastructure as opposed to not giving their customers what they signed up for.



http://online.wsj.com/articles/fcc-c...ing-1407519063

 

It's not the server space. Its the size of the pipes. The internet is tubes.



There's a massive backbone capable of X-terrabits per second. That goes to a regional trunk which handles gigabits per second. Then it hits the local and towers. The towers are almost all 3G (but marketed as 4G). 3G is capable of 100mbps or less.



So everyone on your tower has to share 100mbps, or in other words, 40 people can watch Netflix oona single tower in the USA on the fastest possible speeds you can get here.. 100mbps.

 

Because money. Again.