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16. Higher fees for American Business renewals?
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 07:02 PM
Yesterday

Google and MS will lose a substantial amount on licensing fees for their products so American Business will probably have to pay more, maybe a lot. That will trickle (or waterfall) down to regular consumers. Just another prick in the wall thanks to Republicants. Everyone needs to be told why their access to the net and other services 90% of Americans use as fees go up. They don't realize the hidden costs of the internet to them. But they will.

Another aspect of this could be slowing or outages across the (American!) net.
Qwant is really good. And the removal or disuse of MS Office will port many over to the European model furthering the probable price increases.

As far as the American "net" goes, it looks as though"there ain't no such thing as a free (Internet) lunch" any more.
And this could really slide over to phone service in America.
Ain't we getting greater now?

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