[opendtv] Re: FCC issues net neutrality rules in face of Congress and carriers
- From: Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:44:21 -0400
Sort of hoped that net neutrality would be shot down. If so it would
be a lot easier for capital to be raised sooner rather than later to
finance a wireless multi-gigabit broadband network. The technology is
available now. Building such network with the claim to being network
neutral would a nice advertising plus in a world where cable and
telcos were not.
Bob Miller
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:>> Net neutrality means that the Internet sources
> are all to be treated equally by the broadband provider. So, is it okay for
> the broadband provider to give better QoS to his own IP streams than to
> streams from other ISPs?
>>
>> What makes the IP data sourced by the given ISP any less "internet" than IP
>> data sourced by other ISPs?
>>
>> As I said before, the term has to be defined and used carefully, or you will
>> simply dissuade those who deploy the broadband pipes. Net neutrality is a
>> great sound bite for politicans, though.
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
> Those ISP's often are cablecos and telcos that have attained a partial
> or total monopoly on the local pipes through negotiations with the local
> governments. This gives them a monopoly/oligopoly on delivery of
> Internet information and it is to the public advantage to ensure this is
> not also used to restrict competition and also grant a monopoly on
> content or other services provided to broadband customers.
>
> And yes, of course, it is an economic incentive to any company to
> establish a government sanctioned legal monopoly almost whenever
> possible. Phone companies especially have often claimed it was
> necessary. But it is not always in our collective interests to let them.
>
> However I'll grant it is a complicated issue where the simple answers
> may not always work well.
>
> - Tom
>
>
>
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