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Re: Plenty of BB competition - Martin is right Nice generalization. Look past that ego and you will see there are some things, especially things with limited resources, that need to be government controlled.
I would agree that a lot of areas have cable and telco BB options. I do not consider satellite or any form of wireless a true competitor to either of those yet. Satellite more so because of its ridiculous cost and bandwidth. Wireless could be, but I am not a big fan of wireless for several reasons.
Regardless of the above, what do you think the others are going to do if the telco's are allowed to do this? If Charter can deprioritize VIOP on their network when it is competing with their own product or if the other company refuses to pay the extortion amount it reduces the consumer's choice. In the end, isn't it the consumer that matters? We, the consumer, are more important then any company exec, employee, or stockholder. Too many, including the FCC A$$clowns seem to be forgetting this.
What is going to stop this from extending this over to the consumer? Gamer's need good connections. When is BS going to start charging them more to route their packets in a manner that is needed to maintain a quality gaming exerience? When is Xbox Live going to start costing $50 a month because MS has to pay extortion money to EVERY major backbone and network node to have their traffic routed to their servers?
If BS wants to prioritize the packets of THEIR internet customers (Customer's signed up with them as their ISP) that is their business as consumers then have a choice. However, they have no right to touch the packets of any other ISP's customers. And if they start touch packets to servers that are not even on their network, they are messing with packets they have no business messing with. |
