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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.

yeeah I start to appreciate internet more than before but still I think it's too early for these kinda tho'

I read your post and understood it very well and especially your apathy about the free things promised which are not forth coming. You know what, I use to think that these promises that are not kept are only in  third word countries and continents but we have started seeing also that citizens in industrial countries do also complain about the free things not coming to them too.
My question therefore is where is the issue from that these promises are no longer kept that we are now seeing everybody's in complaining mode.

Yes, I think you are right!
A century ago, gold and oil were the most expensive resources, but now the internet has shifted the two commodities as the most expensive commodity.

If I'm not mistaken, I've read an article that says "The companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are the most valuable companies in the world".

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.

Nobody is in complaining mode, we are all quarantined and in police/military state, everybody is prepping on their basement. Everything is just as planned.

That’s lame if you judge it based on stock market paper market value, why not calling bitcoin the most valuable since it’s once crossing trillions dollar benchmark in term of market cap.

Yes, to be honest that is lousy, I am hesitant to say that BTC is the most valuable "commodity", even though I believe that BTC is (supposedly) the most valuable.

But, we return to the fact that BTC has not yet reached the entire world community. Besides, the world community generally considers the "stability" as a benchmark for determining the value of a commodity. Besides that the general public still has superficial thoughts about BTC even though BTC "it’s once crossing trillions dollar benchmark in term of market cap" as you said.

Mark Zuckerberg 2013 August
“Data was like food or water, a human right, everyone should be entitled to free basic internet service. The 5 billions people who do not yet surf the web, the p2p communications would redistributing global power, making it possible for any individual to access and share information.”


Mark Zuckerberg 2020:
“Internet should be accountable for enforcing standards on harmful content, privacy, data portability and election integrity.” Some people get to enjoy the (internet/food/water), some people can’t enjoy the (internet/food/water), it depend on the judge(the FBI/CIA) to decide who has the higher handicap to receive the (internet/food/water).

As much as free internet is desirable someone must pay for it. Some leaders campaign with free internet as a very attractive promise especially for young men but the cheaper its get the more we need it. IMO I consider internet to be getting cheaper than in past years and it is also having more and better uses. Cases like crytocurrency pose internet to be indispensable, now the pandemic forces more use of internet for those working from home.

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!

Yeah, totally agree with that notion. The sad part, at least in my case, is that service providers here are monopolized by few privilege and you can't do anything about it. Poor service, slow internet connection and then high cost of bill. What you call leeching is what they deem as "fair usage policy".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A business cannot run without an internet unless it's operating locally without the use of it. But the percentage of those kinds of business and enterprises are very low. Many have their own websites that accepts orders and inquiries.

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.

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.

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.

Over the past 15 years, the Internet has become very cheaper, in 2007 I paid 3 times more for limited traffic and the speed is 40 times less than it is now. And with the spread of the Internet throughout the planet and the development of technology, it becomes only cheaper and better. Perhaps he is now a little more expensive due to the crisis, that's all.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe in Mark Zuckerberg insight: “internet was like food and water”. They’re all necessity items, and all necessity items are expensive, you will need regulation to control the price or the high demand will drive the price up to the sky.

They will definitely benefit a lot, the underlying cost of internet itself is negligible, it’s lower cost than water pipe network, railway network, and yes we don’t argue with the initial cost invested into developing 5G, or even the previous 4G, 3G too incurred high RnD cost, by now internet company are ripping profit from their investment, it wouldn’t take very long for them to become most valuable company, and little doubt about internet become a commodity that’s cost an arm and a leg.

We can't deny it that we can't live without internet because most of the things in this world are operated by the internet. That's why we are connected as one in social media, that's one of the function of the internet today. It will probably the most expensive commodity around the world because the only thing that varies in internet are those internet providers. That's the reason we have different kind of internet speed in mbps, it is based on the amount that we registered. In contrast to BTC, it is enough and its price is certainly volatile compared to the price of internet when it become a commodity because of their importance in the community. Many can hold or store BTC in their account but some people can only become an internet provider and run an internet in their businesses.

Internet has always been the most valuable commodity in the world, it will continue to be so because it allows us to connect with each other all around the world. But lets not forget that all other things you are paying for every month is also equally important and also even provides for your internet as well in some cases.

Electricity, water, gas, phones, these are all important stuff that you have to keep paying for, without water you can't take a shower or to go bathroom, without gas you can't get hotter and during winters it might result with some people dying, without phones you will not be able to check whatsapp every five minutes to see if there is a new message (okay maybe I might be too harsh on phones). So, yes internet is very important and maybe more than some others but others are also very important as well.

In our country it is expensive I don't mind the cost but i don't like the internet provider in my country limiting our bandwidth I got a higher plan with 25 MBPS but I am only getting 1 MBPS most of the time, these providers are abusing their customers they will give you higher bandwidth if you are a new client but as later on they will reduce your bandwidth.

Well, it's no surprise to see in some country, the internet cost still expensive. That is because, in that country, the infrastructure for a high-speed internet connection not already built, and they still depend on the old infrastructure. If they want to upgrade the hardware, that means it will cost much money for them, and besides that, I think they have another important thing that they need to do for their country. But I am sure that if they are ready with the money that needed to build the new infrastructure, they will get that, and people will have a high-speed internet connection.

 Internet is a necessary evil and I do think it astounds me that people are now more connected than ever  what is more apparent is their need of internet which is quite similar to their need of oxygen.
You wake up in the morning and without internet , you are going to have a panic attack. I think it is something that people values a lot and they would for sure prevent a senario of the kind you elaborated to be in existence. People would live without food for a day if you give them internet, trust me . I do not think anyone is going to let that happen.

I fully admit that the Internet will become more expensive in the near future. But to be honest, I’m not afraid of this, since the Internet is a very good tool for studying information from various fields. This is one of the few places where you can openly convey the truth to people.

Without the web we might not be ready to do anything. In today's world of technology without Internet access may be a major obstacle Not only does it openly convey information but we will easily find everything within the world reception where it's happening. within the future the web will improve and become costlier.

I didn’t check WhatsApp every five minutes. Everyday I wake up at morning, and looking at the dire world that we lived on, and sip a little water, and a little grub food, and fall into sleep again, that’s what a time to be living, wake up and go back to sleep, I think it’s best to integrate sleep bed, pc and toilet into one unit, so we can’t be separated.

I think you are wrong regarding how much the Internet will cost to us, regular people. As others pointed out in this thread, technologies are evolving, and the price of advanced devices becomes lower, not higher, with time. That's a fact.

I for one, think that Google search will become not free one day, but it doesn't mean it will become expensive for regular users. Let me explain. There are 3.5 billion google searches per day currently. If everyone of us was paying $0.00001 per search, it would be amounting to $0.01 per day, max, pretty affordable, while for Google it would be a good profit, namely, $35,000. But it doesn't matter how much Google makes. What matters how much we pay for the service.

I personally don't mind Google employees were getting good salaries for their job. Do you?

The internet is nothing special really, just a network. If we will end up in some sick cyberpunk future where the internet will cost a lot for some reason -- people will just use thier own networks via long-range wifi bridges.

   There will be an alternative. Cratoon thanks for pointing that out. I didn't think about this matter, I thought internet will be
cheaper and faster, it's the trend in last 15 years, the time I using the internet and paying for that.
   This is one of the reasons why we need decentralized organizations, decentralized world. Why we need to be slaves to
someone who wish to earn from us, when we can take care of each other. Equality above all!

This is really the reality for now. Internet has become very in demand since all works today are already controlled by the internet, and without internet connection, those works will not be totally done. So we should not be surprised if one day internet would become the  most expensive commodity because everybody is relying on it for our own business and personal transactions.

the longer the internet becomes a basic need of every human being, where by using the internet they can simplify their work. especially now that there are many job opportunities that use basic internet. especially for the coming year, of course there will be more and more jobs

A commodity must be limited (or scarce) to become more expensive. Meanwhile, if you want to limit the bandwidth, you must use all resources, so no more new fiber optics, towers, switch and routing, etc., constructed.

The internet is like the car's speed; the only thing holding it back is the human's imagination.

Recently, social platforms like Tiktok and Triller has been what’s trending. Anytime I login to Instagram what I see is just videos of people dancing on Tiktok or Triller and uploading it to their Instagram page. And when I try to use the social media platforms I notice that they are consume data so much. I have stayed away from them and don’t want to be using them much.

I spend most of my time sleeping everyday lol, or watching some CDs I have purchased and downloaded in the past. The network providers in my country have not reduced the rate we pay for data, despite the current situation. Really bad :o.

We are in a reality where technology is really advancing from time to time and most of the things digitally ran by an internet. Internet makes our life easier when we work, study, make research and etc., it has many uses and the information that we can get there is unlimited. It also connects us using our social media accounts, it is amazing how people make this kind of innovation and discoveries. The information and contents that are enclosed in internet is very reliable and informative to people who really needs that information.


If it becomes a business, it will be the most expensive because we can't live without an internet, like what I've said, it make things easier. It helped a lot of people, it manipulates people because it is so powerful that no one can imagine. There is also money in the internet, Youtubers get money from youtube and Youtube is enabled by the use of internet. Even our cellphones need to be connected to the internet in order to have an access to our accounts in social media. It is surely required in any business, communications and connections are important in a certain business to easily approach other people. Some enterprises are easily manipulated by an internet and that's the advantage of internet in some businessman.

The Internet will become cheaper and faster, centralized or not. There's always a competition between major search engines and Internet providers. People will switch to your competitor if you'll go nuts with fees, ads etc., so it's better to keep the fees and ads at low. Every businessman knows it, so we have nothing to worry about.

Even today I keep using Yahoo! search engine from time to time, because they don't block sites that stream new movies in my area. And this option is impossible to eliminate, so the giants will be doing what suits for the most of us, or they will go bankrupt otherwise.

Internet parabolic growth would come to an end, it’s not infinite, internet can’t be faster than light.

I would like to research what most internet bandwidth being ulitilises on, I’m not interest in the demographic distribution of internet users over the world. To my surprise most internet bandwidth are being consume in the form of entertainments, streaming, videos, gaming, anime, only a tiny slice of bandwidth are attributed into productivity: financial transactions, educations, tech support, legal support, govt support.

I think internet data compression is one crucial component of internet, many data are compressed into many algorithms to save data bandwidth, no matter how powerful the network cabling technology, without decent compression, we would never have enough SPEED, more speed, need for more speed, the compression algorithm is what fascinated me, I think it can compress data that’s typically infeasible in the ratio of 1/10, over the air to your pc.

Have to disagree. I first started using internet in 2004. It has been 16 years and I have seen a lot during this duration. Back then, I was having a 32 KBps connection and it would take ages to open a web page. Now I am using a 2MBps connection. Back then, I used to pay around $25 per month for this 32 KBPS connection, and there was an upper limit of 500 MB of data transfer per month (yes.. you heard it right. I can use a maximum of 500 MB data, that is less than 0.5 GB). Now I am paying around $3 per month for my 4G connection, which is having a speed of 2MBPS and data limit of 1.5 GB per day.

And in 2004, I was using Norton antivirus, which cost me $10 for one year. Now I am using Kasper anti-virus, which costs me $20 for three years (i.e $6.7 per year). I have free VPN (provided by Kasper) up to 300 MB data per day. And I have free cloud storage from Google Drive.

Now please educate me on how the stuff got costlier.

Yes I know and realize about something that might be free but at the same time I am also aware and the promises are just a strategy for them to attract more enthusiasts so I will not expect about everything they promised, because we also cannot live with something that is constantly free because if that happens we don't have the struggle to improve financially and also the country requires a lot of costs for a lot of development in many sectors.

Ikr, everybody trying to race to the bottom, how about this, many years ago I used local area network, and I can download the entire library of data’s (videos, mp3, games, pictures, ebook) over the locally connected devices within the campus, it’s free, I didn’t even pay one dollars for it, and also I used adhoc connection it’s free, I can game on it over local area network with friends, and again it’s FREE, no cash needed. Local network and internet are not the same, it didn’t serve the purpose you want it to do, you go to internet because you want something that’s precious, you can’t get it on without spending a fortune, I don’t blame the free vpn or free cloud computing, they all serve the very distinctive demand, and they’re free, not without any constrains, because free items are prone to abuse, google will delete your data without prior notice, free vpn can’t access some communist country, cheap internet can’t have strong connection, latency, uptime, privacy, blah.
In a summary, you want quality content, pay for it, and pay decently, no exception to internet, I pay a bomb to learn the lesson.

Dude, I used car speed as a metaphor because it's still a long way to reach the speed of light. If we talk about bandwidth, you can simply double your cable to get twice bandwidth, and if the scientist can't discover a new type of cable, they can make it smaller and add more quantity just like transistors in a chip.

I disagree about free internet as well, but I'm not gonna say internet will be expensive af so nobody will use it. Remember the law of supply and demand...

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.

The internet undergoes a massive evolution over the past decade, I don’t have the documentary to record the entire timeline, but the evolution is very huge, you can’t go past it and unnoticed it’s changes, it’s very simple in its infancy, it’s now a very complex, a military complex, a political complex, societal complex, cultural complex, a international wide complex, from surface web to deep ground zero web Area 51, I didn’t even know what I’m talking about.

I stand corrected, we are actually sending EM waves, EM waves can travel much longer distance and much faster much noise resistance.

I think so ,because almost everyone uses the internet and the devices we used both in our home or at works also needs internet. So far we started already paying expensive for internet and there is none free now all have expensive fees not only the internet but also our basic commodities like water and electricity.Don't be surprised if the internet would become the most expensive commodity in the world because it has a greatest demand.

I don't think so, internet is expensive now (if you wish the best one), but if you are ready to settle with some low speed internet it can be very cheap! Like all other services, you can use them for free, you can play certain games for free, but if you wish better, faster you will need to add more money. But it's something with what we meet every day, you don't need to be smart to see that it's a business and that business will continue to be the same in the future.
I can't remember exactly, `97 or `98, one guy in my street had satellite receiver to watch international channels and internet on that, nobody else had that! We started with dial up modems in that time. Bottom line, he had money and he had the best on the market, the rest of us were from working class and we didn't have other choice than to settle with dial up! I still remember the sound when it's connecting! :)

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.

Even if it's important for people who live in a big country, the internet in a small country or developing country is not cheap, and only some people who can access the internet. But yes, today, it seems, the government realizes that the internet can help them to get the actual news that happens in other country or places so they can know or they can anticipate if something worst happens. Besides that, I am sure that sooner or later, the internet cost will not be expensive anymore for all people.

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.

https://i.imgur.com/80t0SFH.png

In my opinion, people providing us with the connection are doing a great job, and they must be paid for it.

No offense mate but I can't really perceive how internet could become a commodity in the first place. I mean, it is not as rare as gold. Besides, how can you use it on trading? ??? In my opinion, basic necessities such as water and fresh air could be the expansive commodities of the future.
For just $12?! Wow, so cheap yet so fast. Meanwhile, here in our country, you can't feel such speed at all ::). I don't know if it was just about the topographical feature of our area or those companies are just deceiving us tsk.  

Don’t get me wrong, internet will still work without satellite/EM waves/receiver, you would just need a cable between two computer connecting the Ethernet port, and voila you have the internet, although that’s more accurately to call “intra-net”, but it’s just a proof of concept, I just need to mention you do not need anything else to get internet, the reason satellite, 3G, 4G, 5G, exists only for one purpose, that’s to drain your money even faster than cable connection and you think they deserve the credit for draining up all your hard earned dollars? That’s bravo! let’s me clap for you, yeah it’s cheap I know you are paying nearly effortlessly for that bills, but I’m paying nothing to connect, to local network (127.0.0.1) that’s alone would make your internet more expensive than mine.

I remember a guy with the same goal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
The I love you virus guy from the Philippines.


I bet he is in a good position now somewhere in the government of USA.
I know the guy and his brother and they are really good.

Now look at us, paying a lot for just radio waves which is owned by the government or the people of the country and yet we are also the ones suffering to pay a lot for just the service.

If we are talking about great innovation and I think this is the internet, internet is a failed military mission or plan that use to connect into other lines but it failed after a few years some one improve the concept and now we are using the one of the essential thing today in the world that is the internet, for me internet are not the most expensive one in the world instead Internet is free if you mind @OP one of the thing why does the internet becomes expensive it is just because we are paying the connection of the cable from different countries if you are in U.S they have a good internet but if you are just in the S.E.A it has limited internet providers so they can conquer the world of the internet, most of the time internet now is one of the tool we need to use nowadays, all of the gadgets we have need to work in the internet, even about researching it is more on Internet and we rely now in the Internet it is a huge impact of the internet will gone, it becomes a catastrophe.

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.

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. :)

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..

source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/want-to-free-internet-do-philanthropy-sunil-mittal-to-mark-zuckerberg/articleshow/46491559.cms?from=mdr

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.

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#)

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.

In my side ive been paying up $36/month on this connection which is more expensive compared to other places. Well i dont have any choice..
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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.

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.

I tend to agree, even though those young ages now are know how to use a mobile phone.
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.
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Not many ISPs provide fiber optic connections for internet, they still uses radio waves so the speed is slower but its very cost effective for the internet service providers.Any private ISP will try to provide internet for remote areas unless they have enough traffic to cover the expenses.

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.

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.

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  ;)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

It's because of the corona virus that we are finally facing issues reaching most of natural ressources. Internet in real costs a lot more of what we may think, but i think it's early to say that it will be the most expensive unless you are sure about the durability of covid19.

25$ for 25 mega !
This is the most weird number i see for this year. It's a record in my opinion. Does anyone pays more than this amount for 25 mb of internet?
I really want to know which countries has the highest cost of internet use.

Of course I want it to be free, everything in life should be free and we are allowed to harvest the fruits within our vicinity, but some greedy big corporations decide to impose restriction on people who trying to cross into the land under their control, they call themselves the first settler on this piece of land, they didn’t pay a single price for the land yet they’re the lord of that piece of land, and they demand you to pay rent for a lifetime of slavery, how does it feel to you when you’re younger and you getting exploited greatly to enrich them?

Too many people use the internet and will make the entire network very congested, remember there is a time the entire crypto network are so congested that we need higher and higher fee to make transactions, are you going to pay the same fee for internet during the time of congestion?

The price wars are mainly due to the unfair consumption distributions, some users consume a lot of internet data, some of the consume a little, I’m a heavy internet user years ago, I’d run torrent client 24/7, I don’t brother with fair consumption policy as I will use any software to circumvent the network throttling, but that’s the good ol’ days, now most internet bandwidth are allocated to big conglomerate namely the Fangs, our internet are still very fast, but how long more can we enjoy it.

As the title suggest, I think it will not. As time goes by, technology is evolving fast as well. It is quite clear that some time in the future where internet is quite a necessity for some teachnology such as VR and stuffs like that, it shouldn't be that high price due to need of accessibility.

Just read the title and don’t think too much and too complicated.
It’s just simple, internet will replace gold as the most expensive commodity.
You don’t even need to read any other reply in this thread, because all of them are repeating the same set of doubt, going back and forth, whether it’s egg or chicken theory.

Well OP does not mean anything but internet as we have it right now has the potential to be expensive on later years. However OP, I respect your opinion on this one but I don't think that internet will costs as much as it is now. You see how many cities that is already have a free internet? That  does only mean that it is affordable, and personally my internet is not that expensive at all actually it is cheaper than it is last year.
As the demand is soaring for the internet, the price will be reflected inversely as there is a wide competition among the providers.

In the present age nothing can be done without the internet As the days go by the internet will rise higher with the times People are so addicted to episodes that they can't go a moment without the internet. If the internet is off now then everything in the office will be closed no one will be able to collect any information so there is no doubt that the internet will become the most expensive product in the world. Without the internet OP will be hampered The price of the internet is much less than before.

There are two options(or, rather, there will be eventually everywhere, imo): you are either paying something and getting ad-free access to the content you need, or it's completely free for you, but you must see/listen various ads. Since the fee for the ad-free access is going to be small(some really insignificant amount for the consumer) most people will opt to pay the money.

Maybe some corporations will be earning millions of USD daily this way, but this shouldn't be of our concern. What should bother us is the quality of the service and that the fee was small enough to be considered negligible.

Yeah and presently, the internet is leading, though the promised freebies won't come any time soon.

People that now neglect the internet are now seeking for what to do to make money on internet since the beginning of this pandemic which is very sad. Crude oil price which used to very expensive is now depreciating and investors are at loss. Investors in internet service like the social media, video streaming platform and the likes are cashing out big time because people are spending more time on the internet these days.

I don't think so?? I mean, Internet access itself would slowly become cheaper since more access would pretty much just be available over time. More expenses are being made because those are strictly different from what the concept of Internet access holds. You can freely access the internet to talk to others (social media), to look up information and news and the like. Those are strictly what the internet should be tbh. But different companies took advantage of the Internet as a medium and used it to introduce different ideas, hence the additional payments for like Cloud storage. Mobile data is honestly optional, it's only required when you go outside that has no reception of internet.

We are not sure about that yet. At a time like this, internet shouldn’t be the most expensive commodity in the world, rather it should be the most on demand. One thing we must remember here: all digital things will lose its value over the time as numerous supply hence I expect internet cannot be an exception 8).

This is the right time that network providers should reduce the cost of the services they offer, since so many people will be in need of it and lots of people right now don’t have any job doing, they are just staying at home. These people really need to be doing all they can to support, unless they are all evil and lack sympathy and just want to dry people off their pocket. I do hope that this situation comes to an end very soon.

I think they won't charge us for using the internet and their pre-programmed tools.  because customers are still the top priority and they only charge when you use their services.  Don't be so negative about what humans create, it's just something that drives the growth of humanity.  I believe the internet is still the most useful and will be free in the future.

Internet is not going to be a commodity as it cannot be owned or be broken into pieces.
Indeed, it is the most valuable service that anyone can provide - all the world is depended from it and if it goes down economies are going to break but it will never be a traded asset by anyone.

in my opinion it will be a little complicated because there are many types of companies or internet services so they will continue to compete for customers unless the one controlling them is the same person.
but such a theory would be difficult, because even people would think that if there was only 1 owner or type of provider.

I think people tend to forget about their very purpose with all the things happening around them. With more advancements, products, goods and services will increase in cost. Humans can be very mischievous and unleading. We expect much when in fact we must not. Internet made us all worse but it can't deny the fact that it helped us advance our civilization. Now, the thing is, everything must be balanced. We can't have free things when in fact your country is poor and lacks resources.

Perhaps not as much as the internet then the storage space, probably clouding will be more expensive then internet, a lot of data out there and info means power.

Didn't OP just told us its all lies?

I don't know if internet is going to be that valuable in the future. It's almost free now in every city in the world there is what we call free wifi access. But if it's going to be what it is, DENT must be pretty valuable then.  I can't see that going to happen any time which is why we all dumped that token in the end.

There is no doubt that internet will be the most expensive commodity in the world in future because as of this moment, we are already witnessing the fast advancement of the modern technology we have that most commonly relies on linking devices into wireless connectivity that uses internet to make things work. In progressive countries, the usage of IoT (Internet of Things) is already prominent for it makes things works easily linking everything that can be seen inside or even outside the house. No wonder that with the consistent public demand and usage, telecommunication companies that offers internet connection will become one of the richest being for internet will be needed by everybody across the globe which will make it more expensive following the demand-supply concept which increases the prices to fit in and follow the consumers needs.

if there are several internet services provider , price will not be expensive. each companies will give best promotion to their customer  by issuing many discount for new installment. in my countries there are many company, and they try to attract user from competitors by releasing interesting promotion.

As the demand for the internet commodity will increase in the future, it is indeed, better also if there are more internet service providers that would be competing in the coming years because, if it would be monopolized by a single organization, they will not be able to cater for the needs of all of the customers, the price will only increase but, the service might not improve. Like here in our country, the internet speed is very slow because, there are only few internet providers here, monopoly = high price/ low internet satisfactory. I hope in the future, that this would change and a lot of internet service providers will come here to improve our situation.

When you’re writing from a big business standpoint, two of this option make senses, it’s all about profit in the business environment, and I don’t plan to press on how business exploiting human life en masses under global capitalism, but I wonder since when internet become a tool for the big business to make money, I know the infancy of internet is just simple file sharing tool during the mIRC era, during the Netscape era, but I sense some politics adding to the mixes not a very long ago, and now I got to know it has been a tool to make money for capitalism, can I assume it’s 2014 when youtube begin to introduce monetising your uploaded video, or may be earlier I’m not entire sure the exact time, but I know it’s not during 2008 subprime crisis.

I start this topic priori before the shale oils timbling the crude oil in price, and didn’t predict that to come, that’s some sort of unexpected turn of events, definitely shocking to know that, so I was informed that it could break through the ground (oppose to shot thru the roof) and make -$50 a barrel tell me something funny, of course I’m not a savvy guy to explain the science behind this short selling it’s all guesswork to all of you, but one thing for sure internet stand on their own feet even firmly from now on, you won’t see people stop pumping internet to the next level during a dire event.

If you think APPLE are providing services with customers come first in their motto, then you’re extremely wrong, Steve Jobs did move the Apple to the right direction, the same goes for Micro$oft, it no longer serve customer in their heart, remember windows 10 as a service? Really?

A decade and two ago, the price of internet was pretty expensive and only those middle to high class and businesses can avail it. But the progress changed and it became better because of the competition.

This made internet cheaper for those who want to avail it and many businesses today rely on its connectivity. It's good for a country to have a lot of internet providers because they'll make the service better and cheaper, this will end the oligarchy that's happening in certain countries.

Why did everyone forget that we are all people, we are all the same. You put someone or some corporations above yourself. As long as we perceive someone better than ourselves, we will be controlled. Or we can take control of our lives and not pay attention to these corporations that are trying to take over the world. You can’t take these riches with you. it is more important to find happiness while you live in this world, and not material wealth, which in fact is worthless. The material world is changing, no need to try to control it.

Yeah I’m starving badly now, I think I will forget my language eventually because I had no energy to write wall of texts without full of errors and typo, this plandemic don’t end we all will continued to starve, I’m now watching poor single mum who can’t afford menstrual pads come to the street and beg for help, face mask are flipping to the moon in price, strong independent women once though they’re stronger than men and live on their own feet now resort for begging for help, what’s all this joke about?

Yeah a lot of data, you know what, 120 gb was massive in 2008, I could download the entire internet, by now I’m not confident I could get 10% of internet with 10 tb, data preservation is challenging, storage solution can’t keep up with the exponential growth of new data everyday, hard disk technology has been stagnant for many years and storage space didn’t grow bigger, I’m watching more and more cloud storage getting out of business because they can’t keep up with the amount of data get uploaded into their servers they’re force to delete data quickly, once upon a time they preach permanent data storage solution? But all of them get removed in just few years with reason copyright contents illegal contents whatever. Good luck download the entire internet into your pc.

Internet can possibly be the most expensive commodity in the near future for the reason that with the continuous advancement of the modern technology we have, internet is fastly incorporated into different gadgets and machines that people use to make things work on a faster rate and being able to have connectivity. Mostly people are also usng Internet connection whether via mobile data or wireless connection (WiFi) to have access on different platforms that can be accessed when you have a stable internet connection. With those reasons, there is really no doubt that internet can be the most expensive commodity in the future because of the rising demands from the consumers worldwide.

As far as I know, the global Wi-Fi project was canceled, the company that was responsible for it went bankrupt, and this is pretty bad news, but I have a feeling that large IT giants should continue this business, because. new users should bring them a solid profit.

We are human when we have adequate supply of life support unit. When we running out of that support unit, we all turn into zombies, cannibalism, turn into most nature form of beast, you know what beast do when they’re hunting for the same prey? Yeah, that’s the true form of human nature, we are all but the beast covered in gentlemen suits and lady robes, when we remove that camouflage, we are turn into barbarians red indians.

Tsk tsk tsk....I think this will rather be the opposite looking at how they are optimizing stuff for ease of use on the internet. Remember the days when you only had to browse the internet with the use of a computer but now you can use just your phone to do that. Look at the data bundle spent on PC as compared to using a phone. I think going forward, the use of internet is going to get cheaper than before.

Let’s be true to ourselves , is that how it’s meant to be? Everything should be made affordable at this time. It’s still their choice though, they may decide to make things to be costly for a lot of people or they will choose to make it easier. Facebook is the only social media that allows people free access for a limited time per day, but the free mode on Facebook is not really fun since you’re not going to be seeing any pictures or videos, it’s just text.

And as for giving free internet, I don’t really think that those in charge will agree to that. The money that network providers make is what they charge you for data and other things. I only wish they will reduce the cost for data, most especially at this point in time.

Do you know? Mark Zuckerberg basically single handed dominated the entire advertisement industry, if you think PewDiePie are the most well known and most subscribed person in the entire world, try Mark Zuckerberg, the entire Facebook users are basically all Mark Zuckerberg subscribers, it’s counted in billions not in hundreds millions, yeah you heard me? Mark Zuckerberg has 2 billions subscribers compare to 104m subscribers PewDiePie have backdate 2020 May, now do me a favour, how much ads revenue Mark Zuckerberg can generate? How much PewDiePew can monetise his contents? He got so much money but yet he couldn’t realise what his promise to do? That’s insane, you don’t expect anyone else to do the job that’s only Mark Zuckerberg alone can do that, but the hope is gone so give up guy, it’s over!

Anything worth something is monetized in this world. I remember reading somewhere a post by a Bitcoin enthusiast saying that we shouldn't care about USD "value" of BTC at all, as long as the system works, it doesn't matter how much Bitcoin "costs", 1 Bitcoin is 1 Bitcoin. But isn't it a bit silly to think this way, living in the world where everything has its price(denominated in United States dollars, btw)? :)

yes, the internet is becoming increasingly expensive bill goes up every year, free internet just a promotional ploy to make them richer entrepreneurs. addictive Internet users around the world so that they can not be separated from the internet this has happened in all circles. Internet becomes an addiction many people and become their everyday places without the internet they will be confused.

Due to the current crisis I can see that the internet is more valuable because the world economy has continued to work from home. For example, Twitter and Google workers are working from home as well as other large companies. As we advance technologically with the development of new devices that need the internet to function, this resource is of vital importance to the economy.

Without internet we can't earn much profit with investment way, how to access and open exchange market if our place far away from internet access, with exchange and price of coin suddenly could dump give us little chance when have to sell or or buy.

Yes, it's true. And at the same time I don't think big companies like Google, or Internet providers,  will become so greedy that for us, regular users, the Internet will get unaffordable. And it's not because they are so big-hearted. Rather, it's because they understand the business: people will quickly switch to other providers and search engines if those they are using currently become too expensive.

I accept as true with you that if it becomes expensive then there must be an alternate method If all the add the planet is completed on the web then if the web becomes expensive then there are many companies who won't be ready to buy the web. I don’t think the web will become the foremost expensive product within the world. thanks to the high circulation of the web, its price is far lower thanks to the low cost of the web we will easily buy the web and work online.