bi0tech
join:2003-06-19
| reply to Topmounter
Re: FCC leave them alone
said by Topmounter  :If the government mandates that all broadband be some bureaucratic definition of what he or she considers to be suitably vanilla, then where is the incentive for new players to enter the market? How do competitors differentiate themselves from the incumbent? What if I want to pay to have certain traffic prioritized higher? Why shouldn't I be able to subscribe to service tailored to my usage habits? I know you think "Net Neutrality" sounds like a good idea, but we need less government regulation and more competition, not the opposite. You seem to take the concept of any regulation to mean cookie cutter service by all. This is purely rediculous in an environment as diverse in geography and methodology. Variations in reliability, speed, support, and innumerable other packin's and the ever popular bundling services are more than enough to differentiate a product from another. That entire concept is irrelevant to neutrality.
Why you seem to think that forcing yourself into control by a local incumbant, based on prioritized packet handling shows either a complete misunderstand of how networks currently work or a some rather masochistic tendencies. Consider that once you open this box there are no real limitations on what they can do with controlling what traffic you can send and receive, to whom, at what speed. You want to be able to pay more for prioritized traffic? Ok but you don't even make that choice, they do. They choose what partners to make the enhancements for. If you want another provider for that solution then you will only receive the negative end of this as network saturation impedes the traffic which would normally have an equal chance.
Sorry broadband in today's society is not a luxury, it's a utility. Regulation of some kind, however lightly, is really a no brainer.
I've yet to see any cogent explanations of why net neutrality must be abandoned (yes, the net started this way from the original concept). It all seems to come down to capitalists and salesmen drooling over how to deliver the same thing in a new package for twice the cost. |
