[opendtv] Re: FCC issues net neutrality rules in face of Congress and carriers
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:42:57 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> Take the case of FiOS. They are not 100 percent IPTV, but their
>> VOD offerings are all IPTV. Okay, so now you have some TV
>> streams that use Internet Protocols, so in theory at least,
>> they would fall under this net neutrality clause, if one
>> existed.
>>
>> So, are you saying that Verizon MUST NOT offer its VOD service
>> this way? Or that Verizon's VOD service will be limited to
>> whatever bit rate and QoS you have agreed to for your FiOS
>> Internet access? Or that all of the FiOS broadband customers
>> MUST have access to the FiOS VOD channels?
>>
>> Or what about a telco that wants to offer all of its TV streams
>> as IPTV? All broadband customers MUST have access to the TV
>> channels?
>
> Geeeze Bert.
>
> These are walled garden services using the same pipes that the
> cable companies use for Internet services. Just because they
> use IP packet data does not mean that they were delivered via
> the broadband Internet.
Geez, Craig, what is it about net neutrality that you don't get? Or what is it
about the Internet that you don't get?
Net neutrality means that the Internet sources are all to be treated equally by
the broadband provider. So, is it okay for the broadband provider to give
better QoS to his own IP streams than to streams from other ISPs?
What makes the IP data sourced by the given ISP any less "internet" than IP
data sourced by other ISPs?
As I said before, the term has to be defined and used carefully, or you will
simply dissuade those who deploy the broadband pipes. Net neutrality is a great
sound bite for politicans, though.
Bert
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