NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dana Spiegel <dana () nycwireless net>
Date: November 2, 2005 12:28:16 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Ip Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge

Dave,

This will probably be of interest to IP'ers. More info here: http:// 
www.wirelesscommunity.info/2005/11/02/nycwireless-network-neutrality- 
challenge/
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In light of SBC CEO Edward Whitacre’s comments about charging  
websites a fee for providing services to SBC broadband customers,  
NYCwireless is launching the NYCwireless Network Neutrality Broadband  
Challenge.

NYCwireless is challenging every company that provides broadband  
services in NYC to make a public statement supporting the 4 Network  
Neutrality principles outlined below. We will keep a scorecard on the  
NYCwireless website showing which companies have shown a commitment  
to free trade and open access by embracing these principles.

Broadband Challenge: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php? 
page=BroadbandChallange
Broadband Challenge Scorecard: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki- 
index.php?page=BroadbandChallengeScoreCard

Every provider should include a web page with their public statement  
on their own websites. We suggest that the URL to find a provider’s  
stance on Network Neutrality be made available to the Internet  
community via the URL http://YourISPWebsite/neutral.html.

--
Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
dana () nycwireless net
www.nycwireless.net
+1 917 402 0422

Read the Wireless Community blog: http://www.wirelesscommunity.info


David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: docx () io com
> Date: November 1, 2005 5:25:01 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] SBC hints at charge to Web publishers By Frank  
> Barnako, MarketWatch
>
> On Tue, November 1, 2005 10:04 pm, David Farber said:
> > WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) --- The chief executive of SBC
> > Communications Inc. thinks companies doing business on the Internet,
> > such as Microsoft Corp. and Vonage Inc., are due for a wake-up call.
> >
> > "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a
> > broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them," said Ed
> > Whitacre in a BusinessWeek Online interview. "What they would like to
> > do is use my pipes for free. I ain't going to let them do that."
>
> So, were I a customer paying for access to the Internet (and all  
> the sites on
> the Internet), Ed Whitacre would prevent me from being able to make  
> effective
> use of the Internet service I paid for?
>
> > He argued that because SBC and others have invested to build high-
> > speed networks, they are due a return.
> >
> > "There's going to have to be some mechanism for these people ... to
> > pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use
> > my pipes?" He offered no details how his idea could be accomplished.
> >
> > For an Internet company to "expect to use these pipes free is nuts!"
> > Whitacre added for good measure.
>
> The Internet companies aren't using the pipe, his customers are.  
> And they are
> paying for the privilege of doing so. At least until Whitacre's  
> ideas run off
> his customers when they can no longer access the Internet (which  
> they are
> paying their Internet Service Provider (aka SBC) to be able to do).
>
> I would think Ed Whitacre is the one who deserves a wake up  
> call. . . the kind
> delivered via 2x4 . . . or via a massive increase in churn numbers  
> once his
> idea to charge at both ends of the Internet connection is implemented.
>
> --Dylan Northrup - docx () io com - http://www.io.com/~docx/
> "Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but  
> it's
> really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'
>
>
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