<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">PRECISELY! If we are to tell access providers who are charging for their cost of providing access infrastructure as well as bandwidth (varies widely depending upon locality and quality of service rendered!) to treat all the same, they would have to charge far more to the poor and ultimately less to those who use the most. If we tell them to charge according to simple bandwidth, they will not be able to gather the profit to pay off investment in the infrastructure that brings the access to our door and certainly not enough to bring services further and further out to the under-reached populations. This is the most dramatic illustration of the non-public nature of the internet, real people have to use real money to bring better and better services to the masses and if they can not make a living doing so, we have real net neutrality, where no one has access anywhere, but are all treated "fairly". <br><br>-Karl E. Peters<br><br><br>
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<div >> I have a background in business and I am a businessman, with a <br>
> total commitment for Civil Society values. I will put on the <br>
> businessman's hat and ask you how I would survive as an ISP or <br>
> Infrastructure provider if you insist on me charging $10 each for <br>
> Virginia and Robert? I don't have $80 to subsidize Robert. How will <br>
> I recoup my investments? How will I survive? More important, how <br>
> will I prosper?<br></div>
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