Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 20:58 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
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> On 27/Feb/15 19:48, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> > How about this?  Show me 10 users in the average neighborhood creating content at 5 mbps....Period.  Only realistic 
> > app I see is home surveillance but I don't think you want everyone accessing that anyway.  The truth is that the 
> > average user does not create content that anyone needs to see.  This has not changed throughout the ages, the ratio 
> > of authors to readers, artists to art lovers, musicians to music lovers, YouTube cat video creator to cat video 
> > lovers, has never been a many to many relationship.
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> The neighborhood getting together on Facetime to plot how to spend their
> days after the husbands have gone off to work comes to mind.
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> But wait...
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> Mark.

Even in that case, Mark, you have a conference call where each person is sending a stream out to a rendezvous point 
that is then sending it back to N people where N is the number of people in the chat -1. So the downstream bandwidth 
will be N*upstream for each of them.

Owen