[opendtv] Re: FCC issues net neutrality rules in face of Congress and carriers
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:25:11 -0400
Kon Wilms wrote:
> Net neutrality is about ensuring that the gatekeeper
> providers rolling out services to areas can *not*
> give preferential service treatment to providers
> they are in bed with and turn their neck of the
> woods into a restrictive walled garden.
Of course, Kon. And I'm saying that this has to be done carefully, because if
these broadband providers cannot make any part of their net "walled," they will
simply be discouraged from deploying it.
> It is indeed a punitive mandate -- but not on
> consumers.
Well, naturally. It is punitive on those who the FCC wants to deploy broadband:
the ISPs.
I'm about as unwalled as you can get these days. I get TV OTA and over the
Internet only, and I get broadband via Verizon ADSL. But I can already see that
if I want to get beyond my present broadband speed (1.54M down and 378K up),
I'm going to have to go FiOS, a partially walled garden. Unless someone comes
and offers a less walled MMDS type of service. Verizon is showing no interest
in improving its ADSL to VDSL, for example.
Do you really expect Verizon to deploy anything as fast as FiOS if they were
mandated to unwall it entirely? Nonsense. Never happen. History shows this.
Bert
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