sivran
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Arlington, TX
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Re: Net neutrality shouldn't mean ISP's cant offer exclusive pip
Neutrality isn't about ISPs offering faster or even exclusive pipes to end users (be they consumers or companies).
It's about shenanigans and double-dipping. Imagine if Comcast said to Blizzard, "you must pay us if you want to be able to connect to us." Now, Blizzard's ISP is AT&T. They're already paying AT&T. Comcast has millions of users paying them, millions who would be quite angry if Blizzard rightfully refused to pay, and Comcast cut them off. Unfortunately for Comcast users, they'd have no idea what Comcast had done (well, for a while, anyway). Now this is a bit extreme, and Comcast would have to deal with many angry customers. But what if ALL the big ISPs did this? Blizzard would have no choice but to pay up. Now imagine this happening to a smaller company, one that couldn't afford to pay two, three, four times for internet access.
That is what net neutrality seeks to prevent.
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mrvid
join:2007-06-19
Levittown, NY
4 edits | reply to TKJunkMail
Net neutrality shouldn't mean ISP's cant offer exclusive pipes
I think ISP's should be able to offer faster exclusive pipes to priority customers as long as they can show that those customers data does not slow down the current standard pipe offered to all now.
For example, suppose I was an ISP and I offer a 50GB pipe between many providers and 1000's of customers, then Google says, I will pay you 1 billion for 5 years to give me an exclusive 10GB pipe. Google is not reducing the quality of their connections, their asking for a private faster pipe that would, separately, be faster.
I think that while Net Neutrality is being addressed it should also be added that carriers would have a right to offer faster connections as long as they are shown not to comprimise the speed of current offerings over the net. |
