Posts by icetroggy 6 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2010
Isn't the problem that the card charges are paid for by the retailer, so the customer has no motivation to choose a card with low charges? In fact there is a motivation to choose one with high charges and cashback, which then pushes prices up for everyone else (unless they retailers start refusing certain cards).
>> Pointless if *I* have paid *my* ISP to prioritise all *my* packets, which is what the government are talking about here.
No - that is exactly not what the government is talking about. Nobody is worried that you can buy a more expensive broadband package and get higher bandwidth.
This is about *Microsoft* (or some other large company) paying your ISP to prioritise their traffic above other companies, so that I guess someone with the cheap broadband package would get higher data rate for windows updates than you with your expensive package would get with Ubuntu updates or whatever.
Of course, the government's argument is that you could always change ISP in this case.
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