comcast_customer
@raf.com
| Re: You smell that? Total B.S. _Investing_ in infrastructure with higher bandwidth has about as much to do with priority queueing (QoS) or network neutrality as Mike Tyson does with common sense.....
Quality of service has nothing, zilch, zero, nada to do with expanding and/or upgrading network infrastructure. Network neutrality is a First Amendment right fight, albeit a slightly misguided fight (because I think if someone wanted to abridge those freedoms, could've done so by now), but unrelated as far as investing in capacity goes.
The cable+phone co's used taxpayers money to build out these networks - they are now and have been charging for usage, constantly raising their fees - you'd think the math would add up at this point in time for them to invest any profit they have into upgrading infrastructure (rather than paying out executive bonuses).
Instead, they choose to blame some misguided network neutrality folks and their inability to charge for QoS on their current infrastructure. Well, I _am_ for network neutrality as well as Quality of Service - the two issues can most definitely coexist and will coexist together, in case anyone wondered.
And it is a hard fact that we are running out of bandwidth, slowly but surely.... I give it at max 2 years before we're bandwidth asthmatic. |
