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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
From: Aled Morris <aledm () qix co uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 11:40:31 +0000
On 1 March 2015 at 03:41, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:
Previously all residential service (e.g., dial-up, ISDN) was symmetrical.
The rot set in with V.90 "56k" modems - they were asymmetric - only the downstream was 56k. The only way to achieve this in the analogue realm was by digital synthesis at the head-end, i.e. the T1/E1 handoff to the ISP. The upstream from the subscriber didn't have a clean interface so was still using 33.6k. Sadly we don't have many "killer applications" for symmetric residential bandwidth, but that's likely because we don't have the infrastructure to incubate these applications. It's a chicken and egg situation - of course the average consumer today will say they "don't need" symmetric, but you could have asked them twenty years ago and they'd have said they didn't need the Internet at all. Or smartphones. This all suits the telcos and cablecos very nicely - they are happy when their customers are passive consumers of paid content and services. It gives them control. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it suits the big players not to "fix" the "problem" since they don't perceive it as being one. Aled
Current thread:
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality, (continued)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Michael Thomas (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Bob Evans (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Barry Shein (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Clayton Zekelman (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Michael Thomas (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Jack Bates (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Clayton Zekelman (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Aled Morris (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Scott Helms (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality Miles Fidelman (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality John Levine (Mar 01)
- Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality joel jaeggli (Mar 01)