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> “vital network data and metadata and could impact “operator’s ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks.” Complete bunk - Their (TMobile et.al
by stephbu 5y ago
> “vital network data and metadata and could impact “operator’s ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks.”
Complete bunk - Their (TMobile et.al) “value add services” are nowt more than network content provider toll-gates that the proxies bypass. Meanwhile they are also selling every bit of user context data (position, DNS/sites, cookies where unencryptable, phone-id’s etc) that they can scrape individually and in aggregate to any and every advertiser. Context is worth serious money to advertisers.
- jeroenhd 5y agoIf carriers could be trusted (and they clearly can't), I'd actually agree with some of their technical requirements. Netflix's edge boxes work well to keep them from wasting peering capacity on video streams, and dedicated Youtube and Twitch uplinks would save the general-purpose peering links from a lot of unnecessary load. Unmasked routing would help ISPs route their traffic more efficiently and cheaper. Latencies would be lower, and rush hour throughput speeds could be higher. It might even be a small win for the environment to send all of your traffic back and forth between data centers. Sadly, many (American) ISPs are abusing their position to gather and sell personal information from their subscribers. They wasted their "ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks" the moment they started selling data. They've become adversaries rather than partners because they thought they could have their cake and eat it too. It's sad, really, because with cooperation, everyone would actually be better off with proper network management!