When it comes to things Internet I get it.

What I don’t get is companies like BellSouth, Verizon, and Comcast making statements that they need to charge companies such as Yahoo and Google incremental fees based on the bandwidth their users consume or the quality of service desired.

Helloooo. I a laready pay a nice monthly sum thank you, and I expect the folks with the pipe into my house to deliver the speed and volume of traffic that I pay for regardless of where I am going or what I am doing on the Internet. If they would deliver some value added service so that they were not just a pipe they would not have this problem.

Here is a nice video by Public Knowldge that lays things out pretty cleanly (tip of the hat to Gracey).