 GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems GuyPremium
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Hollywood, FL | Stick with what you know.... I find this rather annoying in many ways. I have BellSouth service, and generally it's fine...but this as an overall business plan is complete bunk. Bad comparisons, poor judgement in my view.
It seems our precious bells have now decided they are either content providers when it suits them, or network providers when it suits them.
Unfortunately our FCC has done nothing to clarify this point. IMHO the root issue behind SBCs comments was purely because they want THEIR portal to get more hits than others. BellSouth is doing the same in some ways here.
However, Google and other sites like it aren't the issue. They need to get their collective heads out of their backsides on that one. You don't prioritize traffic to other portals and call yourself a network provider, AND get away with it from a anti-trust point of view. What happens to all of the smaller mom & pop shops? "Oh well you'll need to get your hosting through us and you'll have plenty of bandwidth!"
I don't think so.
The issue of VoIP traffic is another issue IMHO. Here, the bells will begin offering their own VoIP service and of course it will have scads of bandwidth at the ready...but potentially cripple that of other providers. This is where the agreements will come into play. Here, providers like Vonage will end up spending bunches of cash to get max throughput on all of the ISPs or at least the major ones. Thus they will end up in the toilet, purchased by someone else.
The same thing applies when we're talking the ILECs / CLECs or ISPs who end up buying lines from the Bells. Under this idea they could/would throttle down their bandwidth unless they pay up.
In short the Bells and others (Comcast etc) need to learn that they aren't in the content creation business, but rather at best delivery (esp cable or when the bells start doing tv), but really just connectivity.
K.
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