 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
4 edits | reply to Karl Bode
Re: Stupid What skill set they don't have, they purchase, eg instead of buying the content, buy the company that is making the content like Comcast bought Fandango.
My point is that ISPs should absolutely be content companies as they are well positioned to take advantage of being the pipe to promote their content. And like other content distributors like television networks, there is nothing saying they can't have a mixture of in-house created content and purchased or licensed outside content.
What has me nervous is ISPs having the lobbying power to stop network neutrality and in turn them abusing their market position to price competitors out of the market with either caps, overage fees, degraded network performance of competitor content, etc.
I think is this last thing that has a lot of people in the "community" not liking the idea of ISPs being content generators, even in the realm of television. Case in point is TechTV. I loved TechTV. Comcast had competing G4. Comcast buys TechTV, merges them with G4 and then kills off the TechTV content. Same thing with overage fees. You have Netflix, iTunes, XBOX Live Video, etc that will be priced out of the market with overage fees while cable/telco video skates by...of course by design. |
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| You last point is the entire issue.
They should not be content providers because they can't / won't do it in a neutral fashion that is beneficial to the consumers. They will do it in a fashion that is beneficial to their bottom line and stock jockies first and foremost. This has been demonstrated over and over and over by them over decades, if not century.
They should be dumbpipes nothing more nothing less and regulated as so. One network Nation wide. If they want to provide content, then they should have separate entities that are treated just as any other entity to gain access to the same customers. No special agreements, no backdoor deals, and no special access. |
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DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Even that won't work though. They'll still be up to no good, simply charging "tolls" to content providers like Google or Netflix for 'priority access'. |
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| That would fall under the "No special agreements, no backdoor deals, and no special access" provision.
Those companies (Google, Netflix) will pay. They are a business that need access to the internet. They will purchased bandwidth adequate for their business needs.but they will do it based on bandwidth need that is in accordance to standard pricing that any and every other company can access and pay. |
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