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I call shenanigans.
None of the apologists have yet explained why there is this belligerent rhetoric about freeloaders like google?
Is google riding on this mythical "private turnpike"? Are they demanding that att give them special privilege on the internet? Are people not content with the best effort delivery of google content? Google runs on the "best effort" network right now. How is that freeloading if what you claim is true? Either whitacre considers google running on the best effort network to be freeloading or there is no rational basis for his claiming freeloading because google is NOT running on this "private turnpike". He makes it very clear that the present level of service that google receives is TOO HIGH. Whatever his rhetoric, this means he intends to reduce it.
If this is about creating the mythic private network why doesn't whitacre shut his blowhole, build this mythical network and then see if people are willing to pay the premium for it?
Because there is no mythical private turnpike. What he intends to do is take the present network and impose a more extensive traffic prioritization scheme upon it. The prioritization of certain traffic implies the deprioritizing of other traffic. There is no separate network where traffic is sent without affecting the "best effort" network. That is a lie being spouted to suggest that the water level for some boats can be lifted without lowering the water level for the other boats.
"But we have 2 classes of users - those who will use these new bandwidth intensive apps and those who won't."
You can't equate this with the notion of a public and private network. You start out talking about 2 networks, but it again clear that this is not what we are talking about. Apps are content. The behavior of the app is limited by the size of the pipe that the customer has paid for. If you want to sell different service levels for different users requirements you simply sell different size pipes at different price points. There is no justification for an additional levy, on any particular pipe size, based on the "type of app" unless a company is trying to stifle particular apps to protect its revenue generation on its own apps. |
