Considering we're posting on an internet message board, and Ma Bell and her stooges are dead set on trying to piecemeal and ultimately kill the Internet as we know it, this is a rather apt topic for discussion, IMO:
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Folks--this crap needs to stop, and stop fast. It shouldn't matter if you're wanting to access Netflix, Playboy.com, or Huskerboard.com--they should all have the same, unfettered, fast-as-possible-always service. And the infrastructure costs to make this happen are a mere drop in the bucket for Telecom companies--but these costs are being used as a smokescreen so Telco can gouge companies like Google, Netflix, etc. for extra money.
In short, Internet in the 21st century is a utility, not unlike water or electricity. But there's not as much profit in utilities as there is for being a service provider, hence their attempts to nickel and dime customers to death.