[opendtv] Re: Multichannel News: New York Governor Mandates Net Neutrality in Contracts
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:31:38 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
Had internet service providers been as highly regulated as Telcos
from the "start" in the late 1990s, we would still be using 128 Kbps
ISDN lines on dedicated twisted pairs, and businesses that required
real bandwidth would still be leasing T1 lines.
Nonsense. The service providers have been increasing their bit rate to comply
with increased demand, even after 2015. The telecoms evolved beyond merely
voice telephone service even while Title II continued to be in effect. You are
assuming that Title II is what kept the Internet from existing long ago? That's
simply not the case. Many new technologies had to become mature enough to make
this Internet a reality, and no way was Title II preventing any of it.
Vonage was attacked by the Title II Telcos, not by internet service
providers.
Vonage was attacked by the company that was also providing Internet broadband
access. In 2005, Verizon was already offering ADSL, if not FiOS yet. BUT, I did
agree that voice telephone service has to follow the same rules, no matter who
offers it. Just as I also agreed that ADSL and cable broadband had to follow
the same rules. It made no sense to have ADSL under Title II, while cable
companies providing the same service could continue as if they were merely
entertainment networks.
BitTorrent was attacked by content owners
Nope. It was Comcast lawyers, and it was the traffic they didn't want to see.
In short, BitTorrent was a way of circumventing very slow upstream speeds of
the day. The service providers wanted to keep it so they were the source of
content, not individual users (aside from just e-mail). Don't let's pretend it
was Comcast, in their zeal to be good citizens, that was policing the Internet
against copyright infringement.
Again, for the fourth time, it is not up to the FCC to SET policy
and unilaterally reclassify internet service providers. It is up to
congress to do so.
I don't much care if Congress has to put an end to this level of corruption,
but you are simply not getting that the policy had already been set, in 1906. I
repeated this four times. It was **Congress** that mandated net (telecom net)
neutrality in 1906, and then more specifically in 1910, and it was this
neutrality that allowed the Internet to flourish, beginning in the 1980s.
Conversely, it was the **FCC** that took the shortcut of allowing the highly
competitive ISPs, in the dialup era, to be classified under Title I, as just
any other kind of service that operated over the telephone lines. After all,
the monopoly service involved here, the dialup line, was already Title II. Why
layer one Title II service on top of another? Mind you, this allowed
anti-competitive walled gardens like AOL to exist. It was only **Title II
telephone lines** that permitted the marketplace to discard such walled gardens.
Address this point, John, if you must continue. Address the fact that with
broadband, the ISP had become the same monopoly-to-households service that was
previously filled by a Title II telephone line. Address the fact that this
technology change circumvented the policy, established in 1906, that telecom
service was guaranteed to be neutral. Address the point that highly competitive
ISP service, made possible by Title II telephone lines, suddenly became almost
entirely a monopoly service. Address the way Internet access would be allowed
to look like a gatekeeper MVPD, if our crooked FCC Chairman gets his way.
Bert
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