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Re: The irony is amazing. said by superdog:Every ISP will always do some type of network management, as we have seen in the past by the tactics employed by Comcast. What we learned was that most ISPs did not use such tactics.
said by superdog:I think his main concern is that the FCC will stop them from using any type of shaping/throttling at all. If this happens, a lot of smaller carriers will be forced out of business, especially WISP's. If that happens?, a lot of users will loose their broadband connection, as most WISP's, (myself included) serve mostly rural areas that would have no other option if we were to close our doors. There is a lot of sensitivity to this particular concern -- and it's not only mine, but the people in DC who are interested in NN are not at all interested in affecting small ISPs that actually create competition.
That said, we continue to have no data about the impacts of traffic requiring discrimination. But even if we did, isn't it better to let the market sort it out when it is possible? It's generally agreed that if we had great competition, we wouldn't even be talking about NN regulation.
My particular view is that any regulation ought to have either an exemption or a study period for alternative ISPs (providing rural or competing services to the advantaged monopolistic incumbent providers). That's my view -- not a position shared by anyone in particular, but the folks that I work with seem to also be both very pro-competition and pro-rural and are not interested in making your lives any more difficult than they already are.
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