[opendtv] Re: And now he's confusing kids
- From: "Manfredi (US), Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:58:26 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
If the internet stayed with your Title II treatment of internet
access, we'd still have at best 64K ISDN home service that was
billed by the minute.
That's crap, John. But at least, you're focusing on the link, as opposed to
trying to confuse the argument by talking about web sites. As the crook of a
Chairman keeps doing, over and over again. Either too ignorant to understand
his job, or too crooked to be up front. (You do remember how he has kept trying
to distract attention, saying that the FB and Twitters are what should really
be regulated, from way back, right? Typical of a crook, honestly. It's not his
job to regulate telecom users! Never has been!)
The story is very clear.
1. You are talking about charging now, not about mandating neutrality wrt
information. The telcos never billed by the minute for your Title II analog
dialup line, right? So, what leads to believe they would for telco broadband?
2. The telcos developed ADSL, to compete against the cableco DOCSIS broadband
offerings. There was never any by-the-minute chanrging for ADSL. And ADSL was
also Title II. Funny how the telcos develooped it anyway, eh?
3. ISDN fell out of favor by the mid 1990s, when analog modems reached 57.6
Kbaud. So ISDN was out of contention long before the broadband era. ISDN is
irrelevant. The telcos knew it was too slow. That's why they developed BISDN
first, then ADSL, which would run over voice grade twisted pair.
4. The telcos dragged their heels to deploy ADSL. Why? Because the FCC was
telling the telcos they had to share their lines with ILECs, but made no
similar claims for the cableco broadband. After this unbundling requirement was
taken away, suddenly the telcos got in the broadband business. That was 2002 or
so, while the cablcos had been playing the game from very late 1990s to 2000.
The only discussion here is about increasing speed, and NOTHING to do with
neutrality. In fact, the telcos had only dragged their heels because of this
ADSL unbundling requirement. At the time, the telcos had neutrality in their
DNA. They weren't offering any umbillical walled garden TV service.
So, your assertion is unfounded. And has nothing to do with net neutrality,
John. It makes NO SENSE to be championing the cause of non-neutrality, as you
are still doing. None. It's anti-business and against the people's interests.
As bad as championing the repeal of free speech.
Bert
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