Internet To "Suffer From Brownouts" From 2012 Says Report

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Do you really think that the web will go down? Surely not, there is too much at stake for it to happen. At worse, you can expect ISPs to start putting up obstacles like traffic shaping or bandwidth management solutions. The US has already thought of implementing a tiered internet, though the so-called Net neutrality programme.

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