Agreen, I like your analogy of pizza and cheeze neutrality! That is great!
You are right and Phil's point is excellent! The balance and restriction of regulation that enables the markets to respond to customers IS the real issue. You have framed it beautifully - now why won't the press report it with neutrality?
By the way, I love your cat - even he/she could understand the issue better than the press has reported!
So funny, I love the analogy. Here's another. Turnpikes were created to allow people to speed along the freeway faster, the challenge is that you have to pay a little in order to get that extra speed. Else you'll be stuck going along highways or side roads at half the speed. Key thing with turnpikes is that you pay for the extra speed -- this has been going along for years, and everyone accepts it. The tolls pay for maintenance of this extra service.
It is just "good business" - the Pizza parlor up the street from me installed a new brick oven and started using 1.5xs the amount of cheese so they raised the price by a quarter. As of yet the community consumer group in the area has not protested the practice as a violation of Pizza Neutrality - the cheese cap is just good business as well.
You're right, Phil! ISPs already charge more for more bandwidth. I pay -- and my employer pays --Verizon a premium to ensure I get speed adequate to support my daily work. If I didn't pay that fee, I'd be suffering slowdowns that signal my limit has been reached.
I don't need to be your "friend," but I would like my real friends to be able to find ME, not some other Phil Harvey. That's why I'm using Google Profile and Twitter, but tapping the brakes on Facebook and giving up on LinkedIn.
AT&T showed off lots of improvements to its IPTV service this week. The overall message: IP, Good! Cable, Bad! Phil predicts what it all means for the broadcast proletariat.
At The Cable Show in LA, Phil concludes that it doesn't matter how cable companies label mobility – if they don't have it in their DNA, consumers will eventually leave them. Eyes on the road, Phil!
Four things stuck out at CTIA: Sprint's scramble for subscribers, Clearwire's 4G difference, consumer-friendly marketing, and a rise of content and application aggregators.
Comcast and other broadband providers just might exempt content they own from counting against consumer Internet usage caps. Would that make their broadband services more desirable?
EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.
Congress is considering a bill to extend a moratorium on Internet regulation changes for two years. But with issues like service quality, cloud performance, and privacy looming, we risk contaminating the Internet with fraud.
The risk of the ITU taking over the Internet is overblown. First, it's almost certain its goals are simply to create orderly interconnect and settlement. Second, how good a job has ICANN done anyway? If we don't like international control we should clean up our own processes in both governance and interconnect!
Because 25% to 45% of broadband cost is due to sales and marketing, we could reduce our broadband prices by eliminating advertising and promotional spending by providers.
Just when it looked as if everyone was agreeing on net neutrality rules, the DC Court of Appeals has said the FCC has no authority to enforce them. We're now in for a period of regulatory chaos where everyone will have to try hard to follow, and influence, the issue.
The government secrets of UFOs are hidden in Area 51, so where are the secrets of net neutrality hidden, Area 52? Nope, they're hidden in Paragraph 148 – and they're a lot more substantive than UFOs!
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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