But the same thing didn't happen to telephone...

Dongsung Kim What do we want? Net neutrality! When do we want? ...Like 10 years back, way before Korean telecom companies conquered music, television, security, education, credit card, and started actively discriminating traffic from competitors - for one, any kind of mobile internet calls.

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🦿 Lucian Marin Free market economy and net neutrality don't mix well together. The idea is someone will create a better service for less money, but they will lock itself down to protect their investment. People will choose the faster service for less money. The same thing happened to telephone lines. Why would the Internet wires be any different?

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Dongsung Kim But the same thing didn't happen to telephone lines; you don't hear "You cannot call this number. If you want to, pay more. Then - maybe - we'll let you." It's absurd to think about it, and for the Internet, it also should be - fundamentally, they are not that different. If this happened to the telephone industry, and became de facto standard, would people even be able to choose 'better and cheaper' phone service?

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🦿 Lucian Marin Europeans have to pay more for a call from Orange to Vadafone or from Vodafone to T-Mobile. I don't for other countries.

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Dongsung Kim While that should also be considered absurd or understandable for technical reasons, the issue is like, they would block or charge you extra even if you're calling from Orange to Orange, because the callee is running the same business a Orange division runs. No call to him at less than $40 monthly fee, they can do for 10 minutes at $50, for 20 minutes at $60, for no limitation at $120. This is basically happening in here, the difference is the business is mVoIP and Orange is all 3 out of 3 carriers.

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