On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
According to:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/fcc-chairman-gives-t-mobiles-binge-on-the...
Chairman Wheeler thinks that T-mob's new "customers can get uncapped media stream data, but only from the people we like" service called Binge On is pro-competition.
My take on this is that the service is *precisely* what Net Neutrality was supposed to prevent -- carriers offering paid fast-lanes to content providers -- and that this is anti-competitive to the sort of "upstart YouTube" entities that NN was supposed to protect...
and that *that* is the competition that NN was supposed to protect.
What I read was that as long as a video offerer marks its traffic and is certified in a few other ways, anyone can send video content cap-free. No I don't know what the criteria are. Does anyone here? I also think I remember that there is no significant cost to certification, i.e. this is not a paid fast lane. If this is all true, this doesn't bother me, and could do everyone a favor by getting definitions clearer and getting traffic marked.