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RE: Greed, stupidity, arrogance, and small genitalia.... (a c orporate study on the bells)
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:16:56 GMT
More on this topic via GMSV: [snip] BellSouth is moving ahead with its plan to rig the Internet. The company -- which has said in the past that ISPs should be able to prioritize data traffic -- is attempting to do just that, proposing to charge content companies for guaranteed fast delivery of music, video, data or voice. In an interview with CBS Marketwatch, Bill Smith, BellSouth's chief technology officer, justified the move by saying companies that use its pipes to transmit bandwidth-taxing rich media should pay for the privilege of doing so. "[Telcoms] are the shipping business of the digital age," Smith said. Bad analogies aside, BellSouth's plan, which charges consumers for Internet access and content providers for providing media to those consumers, does seem a bit like double-dipping to me. And as Google Internet evangelist Vint Cerf once noted, such pricing would inevitably discriminate against small content providers. "Enshrining a rule that broadly permits network operators to discriminate in favor of certain kinds of services and to potentially interfere with others would place broadband operators in control of online activity," Cerf once said of a new telecommunications bill that would undermine network neutrality. "Allowing broadband providers to segment their IP offerings and reserve huge amounts of bandwidth for their own services will not give consumers the broadband Internet our country and economy need. Many people will have little or no choice among broadband operators for the foreseeable future, implying that such operators will have the power to exercise a great deal of control over any applications placed on the network. As we move to a broadband environment and eliminate century-old non-discrimination requirements, a lightweight but enforceable neutrality rule is needed to ensure that the Internet continues to thrive. Telephone companies cannot tell consumers who they can call; network operators should not dictate what people can do online." [snip] http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/01/bellsouth_is_mo.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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