 kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | The best part about this... ...is that AT&T is also one of the biggest ISPs in the world.
If AT&T's wireless division is offering a product/service that eats up bandwidth on the "fixed" broadband connections like DSL then AT&T's ISP division can't prevent competing services from doing the same.
If they try to prevent, say, Sprint or Verizon's femtocells from connecting over an AT&T DSL, but let their own work just fine...there will hell to pay.
Kinda' undercutting Big Ed's "my pipes" argument.
But knowing AT&T, they haven't thought this far ahead...which is good because this, a few years down the road, will put them right in the middle of the net neutrality debate...and either they become 'for' it....or piss off a lot of customers and regulators by pushing their own services while disabling/degrading those of a competitor.
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T DSL Service
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| This is why we need the government to step in and prevent any ISP from regulating their internet with caps, blocked ports, or Qos. All these ISP that also sell cable tv and phone will protect those services by limiting the internet connections. Internet has to be protected.
What will happen is devices like this will either be block or crippled with Qos.
ISPs are on the verge of screwing over the consumer by restricting the internet, we have to stop it now before they do it.
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