Tolls may slow Web traffic

Tolls may slow Web traffic The possibility of a future two-tiered Internet threatens today's notion of free travel on the information superhighway. By Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor For now, the Internet is a superhighway open to all. Information is delivered quickly via phone lines and cable to homes and businesses worldwide. But for online businesses, the express-lane ride may be over. As the Internet matures, new bandwidth-gobbling online television channels and phone services may soon be charged to access the superhighway. That could turn the Internet of tomorrow into a toll road, with those who can't pay a premium shunted into the slow lane. Grass-roots consumer groups and big corporations like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google, whose businesses are based on a "free" Internet, say that ideas being floated to make producers of online content pay a premium for fast delivery could ruin the Web.

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I already pay for cable, my Internet connection, and for my paid for site. I'll be damned if I'll pay more just to access a site or some-such. I got along without the Web before there was a Web, I can get along again without it.