Now AT&T Won't Prioritize Content Traffic? CEO Whitacre seemingly reverses course on net-neutrality Wednesday May 31 2006 09:52 EDT AT&T chief Ed Whitacre spoke this morning at a conference on two hot topics: net-neutrality and AT&T's "Project Lightspeed", notes IP Democracy. On the possible limitations of sticking to fiber to the node, Whitacre noted the company was seeing up to 50Mbps in some trials. This is essentially what we were told by a spokesman recently who insisted pair-bonding would solve any bandwidth crunches. On net-neutrality, Whitacre has apparently toned down his rhetoric significantly with the looming threat of net-neutrality laws on the horizon. "We’re not going to do anything to affect the Internet - nothing, zero, no packet prioritization there," said Whitacre to an analyst asking if AT&T would pursue "packet prioritization services for content providers.” A change of heart or a dulling of rhetoric until the net-neutrality storm passes? |
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2006-May-31 10:06 am
Rhetoric DullingHe was probably told by his fellow telecom operators (and his own staff) to tone down the rhetoric. Otherwise he would run the risk of having his "we're going to charge everyone and their cousin in what ever way we want whether they're a customer or not" soundbites sway Congress into passing Net Neutrality laws. If he and his fellow telecom operators tone down their rhetoric, the Net Neutrality outcry might die down and they can do just what they were planning on doing all along without any governmental interference. | actions · 2006-May-31 10:06 am · (locked) |
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