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Perhaps you are missing the point. If I pay for more bandwith and you do not then we will access every website at the same speed. You might access all sites slower than I do, but the sites you access, are all accessed at the same speed.

So you would have no artificial incentive to visit say the BBC rather then Huffington Post.

But, what internet prioritization is about, is that regardless of the speed of bandwith you have, some websites will be slower and some faster. Sure, if you have a 10mb and I have a 20mb then the slower sites will be even slower to you than me, and the faster sites not as fast as mine, but that is the point. Not that a user can access all sites faster or slower, but that all users can access some sites faster and some slower, regardless of the package they have.

So, if this was the case say in 1998, when Google was the newest and best thing, google.com would be so slow and Yahoo so fast that possibly people would just stick with yahoo.



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