Another Reason ISPs Should be Dumb Pipes

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Sammer join:2005-12-22 Canonsburg, PA	Another Reason ISPs Should be Dumb Pipes The more ISPs become interested in things like this and filters that use DPI the more consumers will realize that ISPs really should be dumb pipes.
Sammer join:2005-12-22 Canonsburg, PA	to forum · permalink · · 2008-02-12 13:15:23 ·
B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28	Yeah. What the hell on a pogo stick are these companies so afraid of? Bandwidth is (or sure as hell should be) a utility. Does your natural gas supplier freak out and start "sniffing" (pun intended) your home to find usage patterns (stove v. hot water heater; wok cooking versus barbecue) because they're desperate to somehow twist more money out of their relationship with you? -- B -- In a realm outside causality and function
B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28	to forum · permalink · · 2008-02-12 15:02:18 ·
swhx7 Premium join:2006-07-23 Elbonia ·RoadRunner Cable	said by B : Does your natural gas supplier freak out and start "sniffing" (pun intended) your home to find usage patterns (stove v. hot water heater; wok cooking versus barbecue) because they're desperate to somehow twist more money out of their relationship with you? They would if they could find a way, and weren't regulated as a public utility. said by B : Bandwidth is (or sure as hell should be) a utility. Agreed. But the only way this can happen is legislation. There will be more and more abuses as long as ISPs are unregulated monopolies or oligopolies.
swhx7 Premium join:2006-07-23 Elbonia ·RoadRunner Cable	to forum · permalink · · 2008-02-12 21:06:48 ·


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