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I've listened to interviews with Ajit Pai since the announcement, and I agree with both the headline and the overwhelming majority of the content of this. Once

I've listened to interviews with Ajit Pai since the announcement, and I agree with both the headline and the overwhelming majority of the content of this. Once you hear the plan going forward, it sounds pretty reasonable, and I've spoken with people who want to start niche ISPs (in this case, trying to take advantage of a local government-funded fiber expansion that is sitting idle) -- the ask-for-permission-in-advance model of regulation is stopping literally everyone in the local market (although only some of that is federal -- some is local to the county).

jackmott 9y ago
>Once you hear the plan going forward, Well, what is it? > the ask-for-permission-in-advance model of regulation is stopping literally everyone in the local market So fix that, keep net neutrality until it is fixed. You and the author of the article seem to be arguing that these companies have been lobbying with massive amounts of cash to get rid of rules that they won't be breaking anyway. That seems so absurd as to be willfully dishonest.
client4 9y ago
As an actual rural independent FTTH provider, I can say you're wrong. It's incredibly hard to go against the incumbent duopoly of cable/telco, and they will most certainly abuse their market power. Though in a sad way it works in my favor, I've had a number of new customers sign up because they don't want their internet throttled. BigCableCo will create 200 Gb packages and they will exclude their service while counting Netflix. Regular people do deserve access to a free, open, and unmetered Internet. I'm super small and still offer par and faster speeds than the cable company in my area. I'm not losing money because someone is streaming two netflix streams instead of one.
- Spooky23 9y ago
  Thanks for posting... you touch on something that isn’t ever spoken about. The advocates for getting rid of nn regulation always speak in generalities and concepts like attorneys. I have the perspective of having worked for a large institution that is in effect a large ISP. Our network delivery costs are nothing in the scheme of things, and where we own fiber the marginal cost of scaling our network capacity 100x a decade ago was actually below zero as we replaced more expensive, more labor intensive equipment.
Spooky23 9y ago
It sounds reasonable until you parse it. Neutral internet is a cash cow until a bigger cow shows up.
intended 9y ago
The issue is never about sounding reasonable. If people acted only on what sounded reasonable... Let’s just remind people that America invented the internet and the telcos invented embedding postal code data in auction bids to keep competitors out. All these discussions assume that the marginal advantage is in improving delivery of services for telecom players. That offering the same service over the same pipes but just degraded or compartmentalized is not the winning move.

jackmott 9y ago

>Once you hear the plan going forward, Well, what is it? > the ask-for-permission-in-advance model of regulation is stopping literally everyone in the local market So fix that, keep net neutrality until it is fixed. You and the author of the article seem to be arguing that these companies have been lobbying with massive amounts of cash to get rid of rules that they won't be breaking anyway. That seems so absurd as to be willfully dishonest.

client4 9y ago

As an actual rural independent FTTH provider, I can say you're wrong. It's incredibly hard to go against the incumbent duopoly of cable/telco, and they will most certainly abuse their market power. Though in a sad way it works in my favor, I've had a number of new customers sign up because they don't want their internet throttled. BigCableCo will create 200 Gb packages and they will exclude their service while counting Netflix. Regular people do deserve access to a free, open, and unmetered Internet. I'm super small and still offer par and faster speeds than the cable company in my area. I'm not losing money because someone is streaming two netflix streams instead of one.

Spooky23 9y ago
Thanks for posting... you touch on something that isn’t ever spoken about. The advocates for getting rid of nn regulation always speak in generalities and concepts like attorneys. I have the perspective of having worked for a large institution that is in effect a large ISP. Our network delivery costs are nothing in the scheme of things, and where we own fiber the marginal cost of scaling our network capacity 100x a decade ago was actually below zero as we replaced more expensive, more labor intensive equipment.

Spooky23 9y ago

It sounds reasonable until you parse it. Neutral internet is a cash cow until a bigger cow shows up.

intended 9y ago

The issue is never about sounding reasonable. If people acted only on what sounded reasonable... Let’s just remind people that America invented the internet and the telcos invented embedding postal code data in auction bids to keep competitors out. All these discussions assume that the marginal advantage is in improving delivery of services for telecom players. That offering the same service over the same pipes but just degraded or compartmentalized is not the winning move.