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Re: If anyone can do it...
You seem to view the internet as a place where we are all consumers and a small handful of companies are isp and a small handful are content providers.
But the content providers are everywhere. This is the transformation that the internet has produced. BBR is a content provider. You and I are content providers. Bloggers and tech sites are content providers. You are probably smirking on hearing this, but you spend a lot of time here at BBR, so you apparently attribute some value to this content relative to say traditional copyrighted entertainment content.
The content providers should get the pie that they create. The telcos provide a communications service and they should be compensated for this, but it doesn't give them a right to the pie. If your phone company demanded a cut of your profits when you called your broker, because you used their network to make the call, you would tell them to go F themselves. If they tried to demand a cut of the money made from a sale when someone ordered a pizza over the phone the pizza business would tell them to piss off. Their owning of the network doesn't give them any right to a piece of the business activity that happens over that network. It only gives them a right to be compensated for the communications service they provide.
If the telcos want to provide a video service over their network let them separate out that bandwidth and provide video, like the cable company does. The cable company doesn't mix up their video service and their internet access. If they are allowed to mix that traffic up with internet traffic and then implement quality of service to subvert transport of competitive applications and content and give advantage to their own services, what they are providing is no longer an internet access service. If the public is hostage to their behavior because it has few other places to go for internet service, then the state should proactively act to either build out a public infrastructure or create conditions that enforce a competitive environment through some combination of things such as divestiture, spectrum reform, public/private partnerships with companies other than the telcos/cablecos. |
