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I'm not sure how seriously to take this, yes its pretty scary but can't help thinking: * Wouldn't this fall foul of anti-cartel laws, could all the ISPs get to
by dant 18y ago
I'm not sure how seriously to take this, yes its pretty scary but can't help thinking:
* Wouldn't this fall foul of anti-cartel laws, could all the ISPs get together and decide to limit what they sell without the government objecting?
* What's to stop someone starting their own ISP and not restricting access, could the network providers refuse to sell bandwidth to them?
* They're limiting supply to something artificially in order to boost the price. Unless I'm mistaken and it somehow costs less to only serve Facebook and MSN, there's big incentive for one of the ISPs to break ranks and offer unlimited access without it costing extra.
* What about mash-ups? My Google desktop wouldn't work if all the other sites that serve content to it were blocked. How would they explain that to their customers?
What do others think? Is this realistic threat?
- msg 18y agoThis made the news recently. Bell Canada, throttled traffic upstream of independent ISPs that resell their bandwidth. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-canadian-isps-furious-about-bell-canadas-traffic-throttling.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-canadian-isps-... In a case like that, there's no getting around Bell Canada. Either you're throttled or you're out of the DSL business.