Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to Time4aNAP
Re: Ask Not for Whom the Tolls Bail Well, net-neutrality isn't (or shouldn't be) about dis-allowing QoS. It's about telling those with government provided monopolies that they can't prioritize their own services to the detriment of their competitors. (which is kind of what you said, but in the extreme)
So they can offer VOIP QoS and mutli-media QoS for a fee. They just have to offer it to everybody. No extra special VOIP for their service, and everyone else's VOIP uses that QoS that every 5 seconds is de-prioritized for a half second to below best delivery data.
The government provides the regional wireline monopolies through restricted ROW space (by necessity, I/we don't want 10,000 networks strung on our poles), so they have a responsibility to make sure that the service arms of the network maintenance owners are playing on an even playing field with those firms that the government prevents from competing in the wireline network business. Otherwise it's really just another tax, because we won't have a choice. |
