Re: [MLUG] Oh, no...

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Net neutrality is the practice of transmitting all data from all hosts
to all clients the same way. The telcos and cable co's want to use QoS
to throttle packets from people who do not pay for the privilege of
reaching their (paid) subscribers, no matter that the hosts all had to
pay somebody for their upload bandwidth anyway.

It's a double-dipping scheme is all it is. The ISPs know that they can't
raise their prices *directly* to the customers that much, so they'll
charge who sends them the data and hope that Amazon et. al. passes on
this extra cost instead of the ISP having to charge the customer
directly.

Phillip

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:55 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Phillip Kelchen wrote:
> 
> > Well, I think the Net neutrality debate just hit a little closer to 
> > home:
> >
> > http://news.com.com/Smaller+cable+firms+take+aim+at+Net+neutrality+fans/2100-1028_3-6069873.html?tag=nefd.top
> 
> I'm not clear on the meaning of "net neutrality."  Does it mean that 
> internet provider companies can't charge more for some services than for 
> others?  If so, I'm all for it.  If it means that they can't have 
> bandwidth charges, I'm against it.
> 
> >From the article:
> 
>     "I think what the phone industry's saying and what we're saying is
>     we've made an investment, and I don't think the government should be
>     coming and telling us how we can work that infrastructure, simple as
>     that," Commisso said during a panel discussion about issues faced by
>     companies like his, adding, "Why don't they go and tell the oil
>     companies what they should charge for their damn gas?"
> 
> I'm not sure what the gov't is doing, but I'll just say that cable 
> companies have laid a lot of line on gov't property and they have had 
> gov't supported monopolies in many places.  Also, they are in the 
> information delivery business and our gov't has a constitution to uphold, 
> so we cannot allow service providers to alter web content in a way that 
> might be disrupting free speech.
> 
> So what is going on with this?
> 
> Mike
> 
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