[opendtv] Re: F.C.C. Is Deluged With Comments on Net Neutrality Rules
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:54:48 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> You correctly identify the real problem as the need for ISPs
> to make major investments in the last mile.
Tradeoff, Craig. We've been over this already. Heavy investment in core,
mitigated by installation of mirrored edge servers, and last mile investments.
> Then you suggest that server co-location is a solution. The
> reality is that it does not matter if the bits reside within
> the ISP "head end" if the bottleneck is the last mile.
I think you aren't getting the topology of passive networks (fiber or coax),
and how edge servers feed directly into the passive networks' head-ends. The
ISP doesn't have just one single head-end, Craig. And once again, cable
companies which have coax connecting to homes can increase their bandwidth into
individual homes by a huge amount, without having to actually enter the
premises. They keep growing the fiber part of the HFC structure, but they don't
need to deal with entering individual homes, as Verizon has to do with FiOS. So
for the foreseeable future, cablecos are okay on this score. Saves them a lot
of money.
To address the term "last mile." Yes, I'm sure that the improvements will be
happening at less than literally "one mile" from homes in many cases, however
avoiding having to schedule individual appointments with individual homeowners
is what we're really talking about here.
My main point was, in any such debates, if people just harp on one aspect (net
neutrality), without addressing the issues the opposition raises, then their
case is not very convincing. So now, I think the legitimate cost concerns of
the ISPs can be managed, and if they can't do so without playing self-serving
games with competing content troves, the government should step in on
consumers' behalf.
> Regulating ISP service under Title II may just entrench the ISP
> oligopoly and let them maintain high profits while slowing the
> investment in the last mile.
A balanced risk. Not regulating under Title II would just entrench the old
walled garden model, as we have clearly seen, and we don't know where else it
would lead. I think the ISPs may not have needed more than "light touch"
regulation in the past, especially not in the days of dial-up Internet, but
things are obviously changing now.
Bert
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