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AT&T as a data stream through your nearest cell phone tower or AT&T as a internet provider through a DSL connection?
It matters as net neutrality never applied to the telecoms providing cell service. What you describe sounds a lot like throttling over a cell connection.
And that's what's enabled now for everyone with a DSL or Cable connection.
This isn't going to hurt any company with scale. Netflix, Amazon, Facebook and any other company that is familiar will pay whatever it costs to get in the fast lane. It may set up some occasions where negotiations get stuck and you can't get a decent connection on Netflix for a week the same way channels might disappear on a cable provider while they negotiate carrying costs.
Who is hurt is some company you will never hear of because instead of becoming the next Amazon or Netflix that we would be talking about in 10 years, they will be choked off in the slow lane.
Big existing companies are winners. Future choices are a loser. The real problem is that the future has a crappy lobbyist.
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Thanks for the info, I had a cable connection and had to upgrade to Fiber Optic.
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