[opendtv] Re: FCC issues net neutrality rules in face of Congress and carriers
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:52:19 -0400
John Shutt wrote:
> ...
> There are two customers in this transaction. One that sends the
> package, and one that receives it. If you must, think of the consumer
> as someone who must rent a mailbox. The customer pays one flat rate
> per month, no matter how many packages get delivered or how long it
> took to receive those packages. The sender is the one that determines
> the shipping priority and resultant shipping costs. The shipper may
> or may not pass those costs along to the consumer, but in the majority
> of cases the consumer has no out of pocket expenses for receiving
> those packages beyond the monthly post office box rental fee.
> ...
In the case of Internet access there indeed two customers, the sender
and the receiver. But both pay for various tiers of access based upon
their needs. The consumer/receiver may have a larger or smaller pipe
and may also have monthly cap depending upon his agreement with his
ISP. But what we are talking about in net neutrality is whether the
consumer also may get a larger or smaller pipe from the consumer ISP
depending upon which sender he is receiving from. That would be
equivalent to the post office charging me more or delaying for similar
packages from John Shutt instead of from Amazon. We would like to avoid
that sort of discriminatory behavior.
- Tom
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