network neutrality

Network neutrality or bulk rate discount?

Submitted by John Locke on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 08:00

Just read a crazy article trying to inflame people to be against network neutrality. Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for. The study essentially states that Google pays a lot less for its bandwidth than regular Internet users, and uses much more of it. The implication of the story is that because of Net Neutrality, Google isn't paying its fair share of the costs of the Internet, and the poor ISPs just want to be able to make the biggest companies pay more.

Let's dissect this a bit.

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