Internet price just going up

Inflation is surely a factor because the network equipments are now more costly to replace than before due to the increased salaries and material costs. Another factor is that the traffic flowing thru the Internet has increased exponentially. More and more devices are connecting to the Internet and going to online video sites. These all means more and more traffic for the ISP and obviously they need to perform upgrade of the equipments to maintain (or even upgrade) their service of level. We honestly cannot expect that to be free of charge... This is just economics: demand vs supply. More demand for bandwidth (you don't want a slower connection than yesterday) for the limited network capacity

That is really weired, if there are competition among the internet service provider, it would definitely have a price drop, unless in one condition, they have complot and make a deal to increase their price together. But that is really rarely happen in the world of business especially with the rival. But if the service quality improve a lot or the speed increase to light speed, I don't mind to pay slightly more than what I am paying now.

Yeah, Internet prices tend to trickle up slightly every year. Then again, Comcast rules things around here with an iron fist, which is rather horrifying to say the very least. There are other Internet companies for sure, but sadly, they are on rather shaky ground. That is the nature of the economy and if one or a few large companies gain any headway, they can set the rules and keep bumping up the price each and every year. Just sadly the nature of the game. And the Internet is essential to live these days. If you don't have the Internet, you're really behind the times. And you better believe that the various Internet service providers have realized that all of the power that they have. There are going to be a lot of times where the nature of the Internet is just what it is a lot of the time and it is really nothing more. Internet prices go up and that's frustrating. And when there are only a handful of options in certain places, that can be bad.

I pay less than $10 for a 50mb/s broadband connection and the internet is one of the few things that works great here in Romania.If you pay 3 dollars extra you`ll get the 100mb/s connection and an internet usb stick you can use on a different computer/laptop so that you will have internet wherever you go.

The same is not happening in my place.I live here in the philippines,and I observe that the price of the internet here is going down as time passes by.I know it is because of the network war that is going on.The lowest price here is about 20 dollars a month.It has a speed of about two mbps. Maybe different things are happening to different countries.:)

Yes, now a days having internet connect needs much enough allotted money to for sustainable connection. I am in prepaid type of internet connection which cost me a lot to connect at world wide web. I spent a lot and it does not paid off. "Sigh".

I think the internet price goes up today because the service provided might need to buy new equipment with higher capacity to support higher bandwidth requirements of their customers. They need to have the Return of their investment, but as soon as they have earned back the capital they used, they will eventually lower the cost, specially if their number of customers is rising too.

I am happy with my internet it gives me cable with a recoder box for each berom and a very fast wireless internet and we pay 60 monthly,thefirst two months we didn't pay for the service so it is good.

I'm quite satisfied with the cost of internet connection here in the Philippines the cost is going down because there's a constant increase in users and also there are more providers so there is competition to get the big part of the pie they need to offer lower fee so they can attract users to choose them and I think it will still go lower. And some providers also offer prepaid connection meaning you only pay few bucks for a certain hours/days you will use the internet.