• arin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Ah yes you’re right, the Internet is a series of tubes and we need to pay the plumbers to maintain the tubes for leaks

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      11 months ago

      I get where you’re coming from, but there is significant maintenance required. Cables and equipment break or need upgrading, routes get changed, loads change over time in different areas due to population and service movement…

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          11 months ago

          I’m not talking about exchange to premises, this is between ISPs and whoever is routing between cities and countries. Customers get charged for maintenance between the ISP and their house, but there’s the whole internet backbone that ISPs hook into that requires maintenance.

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            11 months ago

            The online services pay their ISPs.

            This is shameless double-dipping by entrenched monopolists.

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            11 months ago

            Customers get charged for maintenance between the ISP and their house

            They really don’t, customers get charged what they need to be charged to support the network, not just the last mile to your house. Companies don’t get internet connectivity for free, either, paying significantly more than consumers at every turn

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        11 months ago

        Yeah i know, but if one location changes over 10x others, you know that one location is a problem and not the lack funding to infrastructure. Also south Korea was known to have better than American Internet at lower cost back in the day, it’s probably a corporation profit thing forcing higher fees