Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs’ refusal to upgrade networks | Ars Technica

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Mar 20, 2014, at 08:39 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

> > The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a
> > "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for
> > finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer,
> > what the rest of us have known for decades.
>
> Every time the market has troubled the status quo, networks 
> have failed to find ways that adapt to that market. The 
> market ends up working around the network.
>
> Napster and all the goodness that followed it, is one such 
> example; until iTunes adapted. And yes, iTunes is NOT the 
> network.
>
> Now the OTT's are driving the network hard, and the network 
> des not want to adapt (perhaps calling in the FCC is 
> adapting... not).
>
> So expect the market to work around this as well. The 
> network keeps getting left behind...

"The market" can only "work around" things if there is a functioning market. Monopolies are not a functioning market.

There will be a solution - in fact, there is today. Doesn't mean it is optimal. In fact, in the presence of a monopoly, 
it is pretty much guaranteed to be sub-optimal.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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