| > people don't want to pay cough rich people don't pay, poor people pay for them. That's the base of the free internet model. With the Tier1 ISP billing at 95th percentile, and ISP almost illimited subscription and the close to flat rate, the contribution of small internet users in volume is the biggest in proportion of revenues. And with people like google not paying for their transit, it means someone has to pay. Who? Every internet users. Internet & phone are in all developed country a must have for administrative & job related tasks. In every country it is when you are poor a substantial cost, as well as computers. For those who are growingly poor internet is expansive. But for the happy few with latest generation computers internet is comparatively cheap. Being rich is the art of making the poor pay for you. It is not people don't want to pay, the poor cannot pay, and they are the biggest population. Me I have an adblock not because I don't want advertisement, it is because my 2007 computers cannot load a modern web page under 15 seconds with ads enabled. The modern economy is based on the redistribution of the money of the poorest to the richest achieve by (lack) of regulations where the strongest wins. So, my point is there is no free champagne, someone has to pay, but I don't see why it should be the one not being able to buy a bier. And call a cat a cat: commercial internet has not yet found a fair sustainable model. |
Funny, F2P gaming is all about the opposite. The whales pay for everyone.