Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 03/01/2015 05:08 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> Yes, so when cable modems were introduced to the network, they had to be designed to work on the EXISTING infrastructure which was 
> designed to deliver cable TV. It's not some conspiracy to differentiate higher priced business services - it was a fact of RF 
> technology and the architecture of the network they were overlaying this "new" service on top of.

They didn't want to give channels for internet bandwidth either. Life 
would have been
*far* more simple had the MSO's not *forced* the hardware designer to 
use their crappy
noisy back channel, such as it was. The move from analog -- which was 
happening around
the same time -- pretty much negated that reason, but by then they had a 
bunch more
reasons why they thought slow upstream was great for business.

Mike