Net Neutrality - Who needs it ?

Undertoad · 08-12-2010, 04:57 PM

¿What do we get for free currently?

Actually, having now read the framework and Google's public policy blog entries about it, what they are pretty much saying is that the wired network must remain neutral.

tw · 08-12-2010, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

¿What do we get for free currently?

Well understood is that people prefer to pay a fixed fee for unlimited service rather than being nickeled and dimed for usage. The fixed fee tend to create a feeling of 'free'. Charges by the minute or consumption tends to make people feel they are paying for everything.

A mobile phone with unlimited usage. A Scandanavian country tried that once. Then discovered people using their mobile phones constantly connected as baby monitors. That didn't work.

richlevy · 12-02-2010, 10:51 PM

Check out the current Comcast/Level 3 dispute. Level 3 wants to deliver netflix via broadband. Comcast is about to acquire NBC/Universal. This would put them into the position of owning content and distribution, which is why they have not yet gotten approval. If they intend to charge Level 3 a fee but not charge themselves the same fee for their content....

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2397...o-is-laughable

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...288688392.html

12-02-2010, 10:51 PM	#3
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08-12-2010, 04:57 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	¿What do we get for free currently? Actually, having now read the framework and Google's public policy blog entries about it, what they are pretty much saying is that the wired network must remain neutral.

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