[opendtv] Re: The fundamental problem with the net neutrality NPRM
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 01:10:58 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Internet service, from your ISP, fills exactly the same role as
POTS service does for voice telephony.
That is absurd Bert.
Holy crap is Craig ever obtuse. ISP service is the link from the home to the
global Internet infrastructure. POTS service is link from the home to the
global telephone infrastructure. They fill the same functional roles. Today,
ISP service can replace POTS entirely, in the sense that the Internet
infrastructure can also carry voice telephone service. What about any of this
is so hard to understand, that it must be belabored, Craig? It should be
obvious. I should not have to continually belabor the obvious. We have moved
beyond needing JUST voice telephony, as a critical telecom service to homes. We
now also have other-than-voice services, and they have become far more critical
than voice service. You can more easily do without voice telephone service than
you can do without Internet service.
Thank you for confirming what I wrote. The telcos invested in DSL to
provide a broadband ISP service. It had nothing to do with upgrading
the common carrier telephone service.
Only if you have no perspective on these things, Craig. The Internet **is** a
telecom service. The 1996 act even says so. What on earth do you think it is?
Cable TV? A sports channel?
YES, Internet access is different from the services that are accessed.
But it is an information service,
Pure crap, Craig. Your ISP service **may** provide "information," if you are
using an information service web site. It also provides intercommunications, if
you are using e-mail, instant messaging, Skype, FTP sites, or VoIP services.
Most people know this instinctively, because most people actually use the
Internet.
The telecom act instructed the FCC to regulate cable telephone service
as a common carrier.
And Title II belongs to telecom services, Craig. Not to your frivolous cable TV
service of the past. Title I = frivolous service. Title II = essential telecom
service. So it should be no surprise if broadband ISPs are regulated under
Title II.
I clipped the rest. It's just too annoying.
Bert
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