Monopoly-The real life game.

Yesterday, internet service providing companies such as AT&T announced that they would no longer be offering unlimited internet service. Meaning there will be a cap on the amount of  bandwidth you use per month. Of course 150GB is more than enough for the average every day internet user, and they will never even reach anywhere near it. Therefore never in danger of accumulating additional fees and overage charges.

Why should you care? You're the average joe who gets on the internet to check his/her email, facebook stalk, update twitter with nonsensical things (such as: @starbucks: trying their new mocha coconut frappuccino! its muy bueno!), and, write the occasional blog. For all intents and purposes the 150GB is more than enough for you. The real question is why did the the major internet service providing companies team up to decide this? And what kinda of implications does this have for the future? For example, what if, as soon as you get comfortable with this 150GB a month, three years down the road they say, since you guys never even reach 150GB we have decided to lower the monthly bandwidth amount to lets say...100GB. You're still the average joe so you are not in danger of overage fees just yet ;) But if the cycle continues than there is a distinct possibility that you might end up shorthanded.

Now, I am not one for conspiracy theories....(okay so maybe I believe that Obama has been keeping the Osama card in his sleeve for a while and has suddenly used it to curry political favor...and I may believe that the government had a secret hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy....and that Big Brother really really exist ...JK) but the truth is there is something unusually fishy about this latest turn up.

Maybe it's just that I don't like the concept of unlimited internet not existing......hmm.

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-Regina Roy
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