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re: Obama's plan to save the internet draws bold reactions
Posted on 11/11/14 at 8:17 am to C
Posted on 11/11/14 at 8:17 am to C
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I don't buy the Devils advocate argument of what the ISPs will do in the future
They're already doing it. Comcast shook down NetFlix and as soon as NetFlix paid the others ISPs started lining up looking for their's. NetFlix fought back fortunately and started telling users that congestion on the ISP's network was responsible for the buffering.
I have no problem with tiered service, if more data consumption means more costs then consumers should pay that. The problem is the ISPs are trying to charge twice for data that's already been paid for, and they want to hide that 2nd charge from the consumer so they can get more money than the market would otherwise allow.
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Posted on 11/11/14 at 9:12 am to TigerinATL
Great Op-ed today in the WSJ on this topic.
WSJ
Try to find the article if you can. This is a much more complicated issue than some are stating. It seems NN proponents are nieve to the long term consequences that governement regulations would have on this industry. One thing is certain, this issue will receive thorough inspection in the near term.
WSJ
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But the Internet cannot function as a public utility. First, public utilities don’t serve the public; they serve themselves, usually by maneuvering through Byzantine regulations that they helped craft. Utilities are about tariffs, rate bases, price caps and other chokeholds that kill real price discovery and almost guarantee the misallocation of resources. I would know; I used to work for AT&T in the early 1980s when it was a phone utility.
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More utility follies? The first cellphone call was made in St. Louis in 1946 with AT&T’s Mobile Telephone Service, but the company let the innovation wither. It took until 1983 for Motorola to introduce the now comically unwieldy DynaTAC
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If the Internet is reclassified as a utility, online innovation will slow to the same glacial pace that beset AT&T and other utilities, with all the same bad incentives. Research will focus on ways to bill you—as wireless companies do with calling and data plans—rather than new services.
Try to find the article if you can. This is a much more complicated issue than some are stating. It seems NN proponents are nieve to the long term consequences that governement regulations would have on this industry. One thing is certain, this issue will receive thorough inspection in the near term.
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