On 12/14/2010 15:23, Douglas Otis wrote:
To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the speculation on the end game? I believe Comcast has made clear their position that they feel content
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote: providers should be paying them for access to their customers. The Internet would offer lesser value by allowing access providers to hold their customers hostage. Clearly, such providers are not acting in
On 12/14/10 2:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: their customer's interests when inhibiting access to desired and legitimate content. What is net neutrality expected to mean?
Providers should charge a fair price for bandwidth offered, not over sell the bandwidth, and not constrain bandwidth below advertised rates. Congestion pricing rewards bad practices that leads to the congestion.
I just see this as a natural progression of what happens of a single player with a captive audience due to mergers and attrition. They know their customers aren't going anywhere. The only way to "fix" it would be to go back to the days when there were a bunch of competing local providers. ~Seth