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Verizon API To Give Apps 'Turbo' Bandwidth Boost For a Fee
- mnutt 15y ago"I think you could anticipate that maybe you'll have a Skype call that starts going bad," Fletcher said. "Wouldn't you like to be able to hit the turbo button and have that come back up to be a good call?" This is the most blatantly bad product vision I've seen in a while. Network neutrality issues aside, why would I want to have my Skype call go bad and have to hit a button that says "fix it"?
- rrrazdan 15y agoIs my understanding right? Verizon is saying that they will kick people off/restrict their bandwidth, when somebody pushes the 'turbo' button?
- TheAmazingIdiot 15y agoNo no no. You have it all wrong. Verizon will degrade YOUR bandwidth if you are using services that interfere with their business plan (facebook, twitter, skype: SMS and VoIP). Now pay extra to "fix" what we degraded for our business sense.
- oacgnol 15y agoThis isn't any different from ISPs wanting to control bandwidth depending on traffic type.
- ge0rg 15y agoAnd, even worse, Verizon soon has a financial interest in not improving their network capacity.
- w1ntermute 15y agoDoesn't this violate the open access rules that went into effect when Google bid this spectrum above a certain value?
- modeless 15y agoThis would be a good idea if it wasn't app-specific. Giving users a way to pay more for better service is good; classifying traffic based on application is bad.