Topic: Internet would become the most expensive commodity in the world. - page 3. (Read 885 times)
April 20, 2020, 05:50:39 PM
I agree with half of what you said but the internet will not gonna become an expensive thing as per your view we are not in early 2000 and there is a lot of price war between the companies which even gives free data for several people. Those internet giant companies will give you free internet as they are earning a lot from your data and search trends for the targeted ads so if there is a high internet cost they will get affected by that so they won't let it happen
April 20, 2020, 12:40:43 AM
You sound like you came from a dystopian novel, I don't think that Internet will become an expensive commodity, think about it you the reason Internet is not free and almost anything is that there is a payment for installation, you need for a pipe installation for the water, a wire installation for your electricity. I have to say that you are narrow minded, you always think about getting things free because you are too lazy to earn and I guess that it is easy for you to complain. That is how a free loader sounds like you know. If you always think life will give you what you then sorry to burst your bubble because life will slap the least you will expect it.
April 19, 2020, 11:43:14 PM
Prices will follow the law of supply and demand. The more people use the internet, the higher its value. There is nothing free in this world. I think the internet is the greatest human initiative. It helps to connect information and knowledge to people in countries around the world. It makes the world flatter and everyone feels more just. In addition, in this COVID-19 epidemic, people are restricted to going out. Without internet, all information communication or job exchanges will be delayed. This will lead to more severe global economic recession.
April 19, 2020, 03:10:04 PM
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Having a price on internet itself is already silly, we are paying for a connection that’s only existed virtually, Internet has no intrinsic value, for instance gold has intrinsic value, bitcoin has intrinsic value, bitcoin mining cost is the intrinsic value, gold mining cost is the intrinsic value, what’s internet intrinsic value? You don’t mine internet, you just connect internet over the air with a little electric energy converted into radio wave and broadcast into the air to the space to the satellite and reflect it into the satellite disc receivers on the earth ground and decode the data and read it on the computer, the intrinsic value might be just a fraction of dollar, but we pay hundreds dollar for it. Not gonna call it cheap anytime sooner.
Having a price on internet itself is already silly, we are paying for a connection that’s only existed virtually, Internet has no intrinsic value, for instance gold has intrinsic value, bitcoin has intrinsic value, bitcoin mining cost is the intrinsic value, gold mining cost is the intrinsic value, what’s internet intrinsic value? You don’t mine internet, you just connect internet over the air with a little electric energy converted into radio wave and broadcast into the air to the space to the satellite and reflect it into the satellite disc receivers on the earth ground and decode the data and read it on the computer, the intrinsic value might be just a fraction of dollar, but we pay hundreds dollar for it. Not gonna call it cheap anytime sooner.
Don't you think that those satellites, receivers and also servers, and all the people working on providing functionality of the above require some money to be put into?
I don't know how much do you pay for the Internet, but I pay $12 per month for 10+ Mbps download, and around 2 Mbps upload speed, and I'm happy with it.
In my opinion, people providing us with the connection are doing a great job, and they must be paid for it.
Internet should be free? I dont think so yet we know that there are lots of resources needed and manpower to build up a network.
So its just understandable since this is business after all.
Do you pay am/fm radio for receiving channel to your radio? Or do you pay subscription to the channel broadcast to your national channel? Yeah we were once pay for it, but it’s free eventually, they’re even charging people for advertising on their tv channel, omce upon a time all the major advertisements are broadcast on the tv channel, but you’re seeing more and more of them move into internet and broadcasting advertisement on YouTube, yeah the internet change the entire advertisement industry, so why can’t we have free internet just like free am/fm radio?
April 19, 2020, 03:02:39 PM
This post is consistent with your idea so your argument makes sense. I would like the service to be more competitive around the world due to the great communication value. Not only to consume advertising but to integrate anyone at some distant point that requires communication.
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Internet-become-a-commodity-like-electricity#
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Internet-become-a-commodity-like-electricity#
Some people just love to argue chicken or egg come first. That’s the same with arguing internet is commodity or not a commodity, that’s really frustrating, you can call internet the money too, but why call it money when it’s certainly less than money, I doubt anyone will accept internet as money for trading (digital content for trades), commodity seem to be a perfect fit, anything that’s not money is commodity, anything you buy spend money on is also commodity, even air can be commodity, vacuum can be commodity, anything tangible and intangible include digital content bitcoin video mp3 pdf they’re all commodity, corona virus is commodity too since people can trade virus too.
April 19, 2020, 02:53:28 PM
Today we we can say without internet we are nothing, many people make internet as their destination looking for much money with several platform like become youtube, writer and many people become investor with bitcoin and altcoin absolutely must use internet, without internet they can't work.
The world revolves around internet and many of the states comes to a stand still if there is an internet failure but to think that it will be an expensive commodity is a over statement, but the most important commodity is better suited rather than the former. Not sure about third world countries but i am using cheap connection with a standard speed that is not draining my budget.You’re only thinking of yourselves, according of Mark Zuckerberg the world has still 6 billions of population who have yet to access the internet, yeah you heard it! Despite we are all connected here and making unproductive comments, 6 billions people in the world are offlined, they’re yet to enjoy the benefit of internet. It’s very absurd discovery.
April 19, 2020, 02:46:31 PM
I think we are looking at cheaper and cheaper in the future. Think about it, why was it hard for the internet companies to actually provide it? One of the reasons was sending something to outer space and honestly that used to cost so much money that companies that were so HUGE would still have doubts over it, nowadays it is getting cheaper and cheaper. I can literally send something for as low as 100k, of course it is like a toy car sized thing but I can, so its getting cheaper.
All of those routers have to come from somewhere, and eventually we will basically have cheaper and cheaper computers that are better and better, think about it, 20 years ago the computers we have right now wouldn't even be possible to think about and in 20 years these computers will be old story, which means routers will get a lot better as well. So when we are talking about everything that makes internet possible getting cheaper, why would itself be any more expensive?
All of those routers have to come from somewhere, and eventually we will basically have cheaper and cheaper computers that are better and better, think about it, 20 years ago the computers we have right now wouldn't even be possible to think about and in 20 years these computers will be old story, which means routers will get a lot better as well. So when we are talking about everything that makes internet possible getting cheaper, why would itself be any more expensive?
I don’t think I’m savvy and up to the task on how wireless internet work, but I guess it didn’t goes far from the fundamental of a radio receiver that we all have in our old, cheap and trusty am/fm radio, the thing is if you’re next to me, we can simply connect computer and send data to you just simply connect a short cooper cable between computer, but to send data to a person from east to the west, that’s where thing become tedious, you will need to know the location of the person you want to send data to, it would be the operator who need to manually relocate the coordination for you to your target, I think it’s where router come to the rescue, but that’s all the tech from the dial up internet, I believe there is a lot of minor changes made in the time frame of transition from wired to wireless connection, also it added more and more virus into the internet, more and more garbage filler into the packets, can internet get cheaper and even free? After a lot of consideration, I don’t think you will see the time come for the rest of your life, because human will continue to develop internet that’s more centralised, the only way to get cheaper internet is decentralised it, but how would you do that? That’s a big challenge.
April 19, 2020, 11:25:50 AM
I think we are looking at cheaper and cheaper in the future. Think about it, why was it hard for the internet companies to actually provide it? One of the reasons was sending something to outer space and honestly that used to cost so much money that companies that were so HUGE would still have doubts over it, nowadays it is getting cheaper and cheaper. I can literally send something for as low as 100k, of course it is like a toy car sized thing but I can, so its getting cheaper.
All of those routers have to come from somewhere, and eventually we will basically have cheaper and cheaper computers that are better and better, think about it, 20 years ago the computers we have right now wouldn't even be possible to think about and in 20 years these computers will be old story, which means routers will get a lot better as well. So when we are talking about everything that makes internet possible getting cheaper, why would itself be any more expensive?
All of those routers have to come from somewhere, and eventually we will basically have cheaper and cheaper computers that are better and better, think about it, 20 years ago the computers we have right now wouldn't even be possible to think about and in 20 years these computers will be old story, which means routers will get a lot better as well. So when we are talking about everything that makes internet possible getting cheaper, why would itself be any more expensive?
April 19, 2020, 05:37:04 AM
the internet is not as a commodity, but as a source of life for people in the world,
you must already know how the internet is now changing people, and now people are very dependent on the internet,
which is a commodity that is on the internet, like Bitcoin
you must already know how the internet is now changing people, and now people are very dependent on the internet,
which is a commodity that is on the internet, like Bitcoin
April 19, 2020, 04:48:13 AM
To have internet companies must rent locations to build their towers for better deployment of connections,they need also Man power to maintain those towers and also to answers client inquiries .
If You want to buy gold you only need to Go in stores and once you bought a Gold it will permanently yours while the internet you are just paying Monthly or annually .
You are just Looking for single side but not for the long term.
why are you paying Netflix subscription?because you want to watch their movies same as the use of internet.
If You want to buy gold you only need to Go in stores and once you bought a Gold it will permanently yours while the internet you are just paying Monthly or annually .
You are just Looking for single side but not for the long term.
why are you paying Netflix subscription?because you want to watch their movies same as the use of internet.
April 19, 2020, 04:35:24 AM
I think internet is not that expensive it always depend on the way we use it or on how we consume it. Internet is really important to us that is why people add internet as a basic nesicity and it is really expensive if we are going to put basis on the whole usage of the country.
It's expensive here and not only expensive there are a lot of restrictions I subscribe to a 25 Mbps for $25 and I'm only getting 1 to 2 Mbps on the first month of my subscription I got all that 25 Mbps but after a few months they restrict me and they only allocate 1 to 2 Mbps we need a third provider here the two current providers we have here are not giving us good service.
April 19, 2020, 02:24:00 AM
Internet fee is getting cheaper and cheaper by days passes and I don't think the price of internet data will increase in the future but they will give free internet and make everyone more lazy and be quarantine all the time by work from home concept and this is not going to happen in near future anyways. 
The price of the internet is getting cheaper because of the competition however it is not cheap as it looks like. Fiber cables used in wires are expensive, maybe that's another form factor of the service pricing depending on the cable manufacturer plus the installation process and manpower, there are internet that cost the installation a lot than the others. The other factor is the place, if your place is not yet covered for the internet then there will be a special tower of you, but you won't get that in the normal price because it will be expenses will be shouldered by you unless you have neighbors that is willing to help you with that.
April 18, 2020, 11:54:07 PM
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Now the internet is a basic necessity of human life.
I tend to agree, even though those young ages now are know how to use a mobile phone. Now the internet is a basic necessity of human life.
Internet nowadays can be considered an expensive commodity. In the future, it may or may not be the most expensive depending on the country and how the government would handle it. If capitalism would reign then there will be a big competition that may result in lower prices for the internet. However, if the internet will be supplied by a single company then they will have full control over its price.
In my country, there are 4-5 internet providers, if you didn't purchase the most expensive one you surely experienced a very low service that makes you annoying.
Paying $36 per month and here is my connection speed.
April 18, 2020, 07:11:21 PM
Now the internet is a basic necessity of human life. Because almost all people really need the internet, therefore not wonder if the internet
is the most expensive commodity. Even companies that deal with the internet become very valuable and become companies that have large
profits. Like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram and so on. And according to the survey 90% of humans use internet for more than 15 hours
a day, indeed the influence of the internet on human life is very large.
is the most expensive commodity. Even companies that deal with the internet become very valuable and become companies that have large
profits. Like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram and so on. And according to the survey 90% of humans use internet for more than 15 hours
a day, indeed the influence of the internet on human life is very large.
April 18, 2020, 06:49:58 PM
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Having a price on internet itself is already silly, we are paying for a connection that’s only existed virtually, Internet has no intrinsic value, for instance gold has intrinsic value, bitcoin has intrinsic value, bitcoin mining cost is the intrinsic value, gold mining cost is the intrinsic value, what’s internet intrinsic value? You don’t mine internet, you just connect internet over the air with a little electric energy converted into radio wave and broadcast into the air to the space to the satellite and reflect it into the satellite disc receivers on the earth ground and decode the data and read it on the computer, the intrinsic value might be just a fraction of dollar, but we pay hundreds dollar for it. Not gonna call it cheap anytime sooner.
Having a price on internet itself is already silly, we are paying for a connection that’s only existed virtually, Internet has no intrinsic value, for instance gold has intrinsic value, bitcoin has intrinsic value, bitcoin mining cost is the intrinsic value, gold mining cost is the intrinsic value, what’s internet intrinsic value? You don’t mine internet, you just connect internet over the air with a little electric energy converted into radio wave and broadcast into the air to the space to the satellite and reflect it into the satellite disc receivers on the earth ground and decode the data and read it on the computer, the intrinsic value might be just a fraction of dollar, but we pay hundreds dollar for it. Not gonna call it cheap anytime sooner.
Don't you think that those satellites, receivers and also servers, and all the people working on providing functionality of the above require some money to be put into?
I don't know how much do you pay for the Internet, but I pay $12 per month for 10+ Mbps download, and around 2 Mbps upload speed, and I'm happy with it.
In my opinion, people providing us with the connection are doing a great job, and they must be paid for it.
Internet should be free? I dont think so yet we know that there are lots of resources needed and manpower to build up a network.
So its just understandable since this is business after all.
April 18, 2020, 06:27:07 PM
Today we we can say without internet we are nothing, many people make internet as their destination looking for much money with several platform like become youtube, writer and many people become investor with bitcoin and altcoin absolutely must use internet, without internet they can't work.
The world revolves around internet and many of the states comes to a stand still if there is an internet failure but to think that it will be an expensive commodity is a over statement, but the most important commodity is better suited rather than the former. Not sure about third world countries but i am using cheap connection with a standard speed that is not draining my budget. April 18, 2020, 04:07:00 PM
This post is consistent with your idea so your argument makes sense. I would like the service to be more competitive around the world due to the great communication value. Not only to consume advertising but to integrate anyone at some distant point that requires communication.
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Internet-become-a-commodity-like-electricity#
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Internet-become-a-commodity-like-electricity#
April 18, 2020, 03:50:32 PM
Internet would become the most expensive commodity eventually, you would gonna spend a lot of your hard earned money on internet bills and make the greedy conglomerate who control the entire internet water pipe business and force you to pay all your money to access the internet the entire life of you living on this earth, the free internet is dead, the free education is dead, the toll free road is dead, and we all have forgotten what they promise to give us free water free electricity free healthcare free retirement, soon we will forget we used to promise free internet access to all investors, btw it’s all a lie.
Welcome to a capitalist world where everything you get have a price that means any free service upfront is not free and that is evident with the social media sites you are using as they make money selling your data and literally nothing is free and glad that you understand that now , i do not believe that internet will be the most expensive commodity but when it comes to electricity if you opt the solar system then you can save money even though it is a bit expensive initially. 
April 18, 2020, 03:06:34 PM
Internet fee is getting cheaper and cheaper by days passes and I don't think the price of internet data will increase in the future but they will give free internet and make everyone more lazy and be quarantine all the time by work from home concept and this is not going to happen in near future anyways.
The price of the internet is getting cheaper because of the competition however it is not cheap as it looks like. Fiber cables used in wires are expensive, maybe that's another form factor of the service pricing depending on the cable manufacturer plus the installation process and manpower, there are internet that cost the installation a lot than the others. The other factor is the place, if your place is not yet covered for the internet then there will be a special tower of you, but you won't get that in the normal price because it will be expenses will be shouldered by you unless you have neighbors that is willing to help you with that. 
April 18, 2020, 02:12:38 PM
Up to the point that it became a need for every business, enterprise, and household. We may get some free data but I doubt it that we'll get free internet access.
Free internet is not impossible, but for now, there are many capitalists in it.. I am very confident in the future, Mark is able to make free internet if it is given support by influential people and governments in countries around the world..Quote
Taking on social networking giant Facebook's ambitious 'free internet' plans, telecom major Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal has said the companies should do 'philanthropy' if they stop charging for mobile internet.
Facebook has launched an 'internet.org' initiative under which users can access internet free of charge for select websites if they come through a partner telecom operator.
source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/want-to-free-internet-do-philanthropy-sunil-mittal-to-mark-zuckerberg/articleshow/46491559.cms?from=mdr Facebook has launched an 'internet.org' initiative under which users can access internet free of charge for select websites if they come through a partner telecom operator.
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