2006-09-15 01:37:03 · 12 answers · asked by sachone 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The money goes to your ISP for taxes on the line, and the cost of their equipment. Also, to pay their employees.
2006-09-15 01:44:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it requires a lot of hardware to be built, which costs money, run and maintained by people who need to be paid wages, phone and cable lines need to be installed and maintained, again, costs money, and ISP businesses need to be set up to get the internet connection into peoples' homes, again requiring people who need to be paid wages.
The bottom line is, people need to eat, and unless you have a vegetable garden and a few cows and chickens, you'll be buying from a supermarket, which require money. Hence people need to be paid wages, so jobs like maintaining the internet need to have salaries attached, otherwise no one would do it. No matter how much anyone loves a job they're not going to take it if it means they'll starve to death. Therefore you pay for an internet connection because it costs to set it up and the people setting it up need to eat.
The information is free as in there are no restrictions on who gets hold of it. The method you use to access the information is up to you. You could choose to get it by word of mouth, which is free, or from a public library, which is free, if you choose to get it on the internet then you've chosen a costly method to get to free information.
2006-09-15 09:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by reddragon105 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly as you say. You pay to acces it. Just like you have paid for a pavement at your door. You do not notice, but you do pay for infrastructure.
I think that is good. There are no free lunches. Free acces would give more advertisements or bad connections.
2006-09-15 08:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by Stillwater 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't.
No one is charging you to access information off servers around the world.
Companies charge you to hire an access onto the network, not to get the info.
Let me guess, you think somehow that telcos should provide you with free equipment to access a computer network, so how does that business model work then ?
2006-09-15 08:48:54 · answer #4 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You pay for the service, it is using someone else's cabling (phone, cable, etc) and equipment (routers, switches, etc) for the backbone of the internet system. Even ISPs must contract with higher ISPs in a tier system to provide service.
2006-09-15 08:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by shadowkat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my dear i have something free to give advice, i have something to be charged that is service, likewise things are on internet some information are kept public while more of it is charged
2006-09-15 08:39:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for the same reason you have to pay for phone calls when it's free to talk with people.
2006-09-15 08:39:06 · answer #7 · answered by Walter W. Krijthe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a good qeustion i bet its coz the people who provide the net are greedy muppets who want more money
2006-09-15 08:39:30 · answer #8 · answered by bam P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dont pay for the info, you pay for the connection
2006-09-15 08:39:10 · answer #9 · answered by casurfwatcher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maintenance. we r on info tech nowadays. info is now a commodity
2006-09-15 08:47:23 · answer #10 · answered by freelanceot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋