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Franklin, TN | The last line says it all quote:
The real question as these rules get hashed out will be determining the line between a carrier blocking an application and service to protect the network, and a carrier blocking an application or service to protect voice, SMS or content revenues.
That's what it ultimately boils too. Let's say for example I'm a wireless ISP  and I'm selling some re-branded VoIP service to customers. Before long, I start to notice that some iPhone users are using the network to make calls and then some Blackberry customers are also using the network to make phone calls. Before long, it seems everyone is because no one wants to use my re-branded phone service. So in an attempt to pull back customers, I complain/make up fake data/etc. that all those other users are hurting the users of my service in some way. I start blocking all the iPhone/Blackberry guys from either using their own service piggy back or make some stupid traffic shaping rule that adds delay or packet loss to their phone service.
Everyone complains about how their phone doesn't work with my service and then I slip out the "well it's probably them, my phone network though works flawless all the time, why don't you switch".
Months later when it lands on every news site that I'm not being fair to AT&T or whoever, investigations are opened up and again I just lay out the same line of "well, the phones were hurting our service, we had to protect our core service" and push out a bunch of power point slides about it and everyone goes home happy and angry at the same time.
Yeah, the only difference is, I don't have millions to spend on legal defense to tie it up in court for the next 25 years before some new technology comes along.
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The real question as these rules get hashed out will be determining the line between a carrier blocking an application and service to protect the network, and a carrier blocking an application or service to protect voice, SMS or content revenues.
At least we're getting a better picture of what the FCC is thinking about.
Its about anti-competitive behavior where you start blocking competing services. Its not about throttling bandwidth or caps for network capacity.
And that is an important distinction. Us WISPs were worrying the FCC would force us to not bandwidth limit heavy users, but it seems this isn't the case. At least for now. | |
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