The truth is, we all get richer with every day, in the early days people were paying hundreds of dollars per month to get an internet connection that could barely load simple web pages, now you can stream gigabytes of movies in ultra hd quality. Today's $50 phones are much more powerful than $500 phones from 10 years ago. Technology isn't getting more expensive, it gets cheaper because it develops very quickly. I don't see any reason for the internet to become the most expensive commodity.
It’s acceptable for a smart device to get much cheaper, internet is perishable item much like food and water, you pay for food everyday, you pay for water everyday, it’s the monthly bills that’s going to drain more money than you can imagine. There is no doubt price is going down, what we failed to see is price itself is often deceiving, we often listen to people blaming Big Mac is going up again and it’s gettig expensive, but the price for a Big Mac is barely $5, that’s right, food price can become most expensive despite the price itself is as low as $5, the same goes for internet, you may say internet price is $5 and it’s cheaper than Big Mac, still you’re gonna pay everyday. 
Topic: Internet would become the most expensive commodity in the world. - page 6. (Read 939 times)
April 04, 2020, 06:33:49 AM
April 04, 2020, 04:10:17 AM
Internet companies are the ones that are really going to benefit at this time because everyone is at home and most people are spending their time on TikTok, Triller, and Instagram and other social platforms. Whenever I open my Instagram I'm always seeing Triller and TikTok videos, like so many of them everyday. That shows that a lot of people are bored and they are looking for ways that they can keep themselves busy and not get bored.
Another set of people are the internet/network providers, they are other companies that are going to profit, but I'm hoping that they cut their charges and make things easy for people.
Another set of people are the internet/network providers, they are other companies that are going to profit, but I'm hoping that they cut their charges and make things easy for people.
April 04, 2020, 03:04:04 AM
I don't think that it will become more expensive, maybe electricity will surge higher because we are losing more and more fuels so the lesser the fuel then the more expensive the electricity will be, next thing would be gas, I think most of the basic necessities will surge in the near future.
March 31, 2020, 07:09:33 PM
The truth is, we all get richer with every day, in the early days people were paying hundreds of dollars per month to get an internet connection that could barely load simple web pages, now you can stream gigabytes of movies in ultra hd quality. Today's $50 phones are much more powerful than $500 phones from 10 years ago. Technology isn't getting more expensive, it gets cheaper because it develops very quickly. I don't see any reason for the internet to become the most expensive commodity.
March 31, 2020, 11:24:10 AM
Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!
As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?
If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.
I like that you want to stress the impression that user experience come first. Let see what I want to say, in the past, I can use internet for 24/7 download without compromising my user experience overall, but today, despite higher speed higher bandwidth in term of everything, can I still use internet 24/7 and without compromising the experience I get in the past? I highly doubt so, by now the user experience is very bad, if you don’t go for the most higher end of the internet package, you won’t be able to enjoy the same user experience you get in the past.
Let’s view it in a different light, Mark Zuckerberg narrate that Internet was like food and water. In the past I was enjoy the food which are consist of seafood/chicken/hams/burgers/pizza etc, and yeah the overall experience of the food is very good, I enjoy the food a lot in the past. Today the food is the same price, and what I get is broccoli/soymeat/soy burger/soy pizza/soy seafood, don’t get me wrong they’re all look the same taste the same and you get the best bang out of the bucks, but can you call that your experience didn’t get compromised? And why I compare internet to food, I should compare apple to apple. Not comparing apple to orange, but internet was like food and water, so is internet is apple, food and water is apple, and apple is apple is water is food become established? Yeah food is becoming very expensive, I doubt food isn’t the second most expensive items by the time of crisis like today, internet will rank the first place.
March 31, 2020, 10:03:10 AM
Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!
As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?
If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.
I like that you want to stress the impression that user experience come first. Let see what I want to say, in the past, I can use internet for 24/7 download without compromising my user experience overall, but today, despite higher speed higher bandwidth in term of everything, can I still use internet 24/7 and without compromising the experience I get in the past? I highly doubt so, by now the user experience is very bad, if you don’t go for the most higher end of the internet package, you won’t be able to enjoy the same user experience you get in the past.
March 31, 2020, 09:56:46 AM
Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!
As I have already written, your problems and your understanding of the situation arise from your personal experience - I, like some others, wrote my own experience, which is exactly the opposite of what you present in your views. I do not need VPN, not interested in Chinese sites and why should I use dial-up since there is no such service in my country?
If you are in a situation where you have expensive internet and have to use VPN (which can be bought again at a very good price) it does not mean that internet will be the most expensive thing in the world.
March 31, 2020, 09:21:47 AM
Getting cheaper? I used to pay for only broadband in the past. Today we pay for mobile data, broadband data, VPN data, anti virus, cloud computing, cloud storage, subscriptions, yyy, oh and you tell me you are paying lesser on the internet? Ironic!
First you need to understand that the price and availability of the internet is not the same all over the world, and that you give your opinion based only on what you can conclude from your personal example. Secondly, you can't compare the Internet 15 years ago when we used dial-up modems and speeds that were ridiculously low compared to today's.
My monthly plan for fixed internet that is unlimited at 40 Mbps cost around 20 EUR, but that is also including landline phone with unlimited calls within the country. 5 years ago I was paying a lot worse service around 30 EUR, so in my case the quality of service is increased and the price reduced.
Everything else you cite as internet expenses are just additional services, and cannot be counted in the base price of the internet. I pay for my antivirus $5 few years ago (the subscription is still functioning), and I watch best satellite programs for $5 months or even less - generally for all the services I pay a lot less than before.
Your argument are weak, you think they’re additional services? I need to use VPN because I can’t access the internet where I want to buy my stuff, I can’t access China website without a VPN, without that additional service I can’t do shit, they’re a necessary expense to access internet, all the other expense are necessary too, if you want to cherry picking, why don’t you go to dial up Internet, which is the most cheapest internet you can have and 56k speed, you don’t even need a router/WiFi for that task, all you need is just a phone line cable and voila an internet!
March 31, 2020, 08:20:03 AM
Well, this is why it's important to spend your online life doing productive things. Such things will help in taking care of whatever bill (appropriate bill) that is given to you.
And this is a great opportunity for people to start build sites that consume less data/energy.
Better we spend more of our online time on good/safe things that are beneficial to others and us. This can be better handled on well decentralized tech.
Gold won't be the main thing I will consider to survive in a world of choas. I will rely more on things that are abundant I can produce quickly myself. Example natural food, mud, etc
And this is a great opportunity for people to start build sites that consume less data/energy.
Better we spend more of our online time on good/safe things that are beneficial to others and us. This can be better handled on well decentralized tech.
Gold won't be the main thing I will consider to survive in a world of choas. I will rely more on things that are abundant I can produce quickly myself. Example natural food, mud, etc
March 31, 2020, 07:09:42 AM
Because of the crisis the web will increase the value of the web but people won't stop using the web Because without the web everything is idle the web will become the foremost expensive product within the world and can speed up our operations and make the transaction much faster and faster. Currently the web is trying to enhance Without the web trade and commerce are going to be about inevitable.
March 31, 2020, 05:59:01 AM
I think Mark Zuckerberg used to advocate free internet access to everybody around the the globe, despite internet cost almost nothing to connect two devices, what is spend during the transmission of internet data are just so satellite radio waves or some wire cable electricity, compare to digging gold from the earth crust, you digging gold you need a lot of men’s power, you need a lot of chemicals, you need a lot of heat to melt gold, a lot of petrol to move the gold, a lot of space to store the gold, a lot of everything to keep gold to what we have today, but it mean nothing. 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.
March 31, 2020, 04:54:56 AM
Good argument but I don't think that Internet will become the most expensive, on the contrary, I believed it will become more cheaper as we advance this technology. Today I'm paying around 25$ for a 10 Mbps. Yes, you might say that this is expensive basing on the speed as compare to other countries. But I used to pay $50 back then just like 10 years ago, and back then the service has horrible, and the company has a poor service.
But with the advent of latest trend, and more companies joining the picture, services here become cheap because of competition. Actually you can see a lot of marketing in the streets trying to lure someone to get out of their current services provider and moved to the new and latest and fastest provider. Although, I'm locked for 1 year, which I just renew every year. They even offer me some Iphone (old model obviously) just to keep me with them, Lol.
But with the advent of latest trend, and more companies joining the picture, services here become cheap because of competition. Actually you can see a lot of marketing in the streets trying to lure someone to get out of their current services provider and moved to the new and latest and fastest provider. Although, I'm locked for 1 year, which I just renew every year. They even offer me some Iphone (old model obviously) just to keep me with them, Lol.
March 31, 2020, 04:06:32 AM
internet commodities are very expensive but the cost is ignoring by many people because it is also worth it for online trading development, and the subscribers are rapidly increasing into the whole world because it is extremely useful and high technology, Through this connection, some traders are successfully gain in their business transaction since the internet was discovered.
Here in the Philippines, the internet is very slow, and that is why a lot of people here are angry about the companies that monopolizes the internet. There are limited companies that offers internet that is why the price for the internet is high but, the service is not good. But, even with that condition, the people still need internet in their daily lives: work, education, browsing and streaming. Hoping there would be more internet companies that would invest here in the Philippines so that the competition would increase for a possibility to have a lower internet price and better service.
March 31, 2020, 03:21:16 AM
Internet is already part of our lives and there's a huge business that lies in it. Imagine a two decades ago or more, people thought of the internet as something crazy technology that we don't even think how it will touch everyone's lives.
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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
Indeed. Internet has become part of our everyday lives that most of our work we always used the internet because it is the best source from finding good informations and ideas. Also, everything in this world is starting to make some upgrades that every technology requires internet access to continue their works.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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
This is why the internet has a very important role to make every business run and to the economy. This is the entire economy that needs it and it's why I'd agree that it's the most expensive commodity today.
March 30, 2020, 08:12:57 AM
Getting cheaper? I used to pay for only broadband in the past. Today we pay for mobile data, broadband data, VPN data, anti virus, cloud computing, cloud storage, subscriptions, yyy, oh and you tell me you are paying lesser on the internet? Ironic!
First you need to understand that the price and availability of the internet is not the same all over the world, and that you give your opinion based only on what you can conclude from your personal example. Secondly, you can't compare the Internet 15 years ago when we used dial-up modems and speeds that were ridiculously low compared to today's.
My monthly plan for fixed internet that is unlimited at 40 Mbps cost around 20 EUR, but that is also including landline phone with unlimited calls within the country. 5 years ago I was paying a lot worse service around 30 EUR, so in my case the quality of service is increased and the price reduced.
Everything else you cite as internet expenses are just additional services, and cannot be counted in the base price of the internet. I pay for my antivirus $5 few years ago (the subscription is still functioning), and I watch best satellite programs for $5 months or even less - generally for all the services I pay a lot less than before.
March 30, 2020, 08:02:59 AM
Internet is already part of our lives and there's a huge business that lies in it. Imagine a two decades ago or more, people thought of the internet as something crazy technology that we don't even think how it will touch everyone's lives.
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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
Indeed. Internet has become part of our everyday lives that most of our work we always used the internet because it is the best source from finding good informations and ideas. Also, everything in this world is starting to make some upgrades that every technology requires internet access to continue their works. 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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
March 30, 2020, 02:31:43 AM
Internet is already part of our lives and there's a huge business that lies in it. Imagine a two decades ago or more, people thought of the internet as something crazy technology that we don't even think how it will touch everyone's lives.
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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
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. Businessmen understand the trends and that's how they make money from things that we need and use despite regulations or laws that will be passed to give us free access.
March 29, 2020, 11:31:32 PM
Without internet we can't access to the world and economic become most crisis, many countries try to give friendly access internet to their people by giving faster internet access, many experts have try new of internet speed with 5G to give most faster speed.
March 29, 2020, 09:16:42 PM
internet commodities are very expensive but the cost is ignoring by many people because it is also worth it for online trading development, and the subscribers are rapidly increasing into the whole world because it is extremely useful and high technology, Through this connection, some traders are successfully gain in their business transaction since the internet was discovered.
March 29, 2020, 08:56:13 PM
yeeah I start to appreciate internet more than before but still I think it's too early for these kinda tho'
I enjoy using internet many years ago, when internet was primitive, I can use the internet to my heart content, I can download 24/7, and my internet bills isn’t high too, but now we have mobile data in the mix, we aren’t allowed to stream as much as we like or you’re looking at a bills bomb in the end of the month, also broadband bills aren’t getting cheaper too, the entire internet is plagued with ads ware, bandwidth leeching, mining virus, many garbage data plugin pops up that will used up all your internet quote quickly.But there are a lot of countries that are offering free internet, but I think there is a catch, you can be track anytime they want. And I guess nothing is free in this world.
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