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TL;DR: "Here's what AT&T's proposal looks like: In a recent meeting with FCC officials, AT&T's senior vice president for regulatory policy laid out a plan that
by ssivark 12y ago
TL;DR: "Here's what AT&T's proposal looks like: In a recent meeting with FCC officials, AT&T's senior vice president for regulatory policy laid out a plan that would allow individual consumers to ask that some applications, such as Netflix, receive priority treatment over other services, such as e-mail or online video games. That's different from the FCC's current proposal, which tacitly allows Internet providers to charge content companies for priority access to consumers but doesn't give the consumers a choice in the matter."
Wait a minute. What's stops ISPs from forming cartels and "bundling" services, thereby destroying smaller competitors while the bigger players cement their position. Haven't we seen that with cable TV?
- Karunamon 12y agoIsn't this just describing QoS, which is something any sane ISP is already running?
- smtddr 12y agoQoS at the ISP level isn't the same as QoS at the customer level. QoS at the ISP level is probably just something like not letting torrent traffic completely saturate their whole network, so the mostly average user just trying to load a webpage gets a reasonable response time. If people want QoS themselves, they should just do it themselves with a router that supports it. If ISPs start doing what at&t is suggesting, there _will_ be bundle-packs, they'll be priced differently and it'll still lead to this[1], but with more abstract labels or shuffling around to group companies with similar content(bandwidth consumption). 1. http://muncievoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/net-neutrality.jpg http://muncievoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/net-neutra...
- gavinpc 12y agoIs that image for real?
- smtddr 12y agoNo... Not yet anyway. I remember seeing this image(or something extremely similar) years ago to show the negative outcome of net neutrality[1] efforts failing. 1.And the ideas in this article is what I mean when I use the term "Net neutrality" http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/netflix-has-replaced-google-as-the-face-of-net-neutrality-20140915 http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/netflix-has-replaced-goo...
- jonah 12y ago"...would allow individual consumers to ask" The customer will probably have to mail a certified letter to their ISP requesting priority. No way they'd make it easy.