[opendtv] Re: Verizon to start throttling all smartphone videos to 480p or 720p
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 23:49:44 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Pay attention Bert. There is no collusion between Cox and DirecTV Now.
AT&T Zero Rates DirecTV Now bits on my cellular data plan. In this case
AT&T owns both the content source and the ISP; I am fairly certain that
DirecTV pays for these bits, but this is moving money from one pocket
to the other...
Okay, so it's between the AT&T wireless network and DirecTV Now. It used to be,
originally, that wireless broadband providers were excluded from a net
neutrality mandate. No longer. So, same question remains. Is this zero rating
of DirecTV Now exclusive to DirecTV Now? As you must know, whether or not the
same company owns both makes no difference at all, in these matters. And the
other point remains too, that if these zero rating agreements are
non-exclusive, then the special interests would, you know, lose interest.
T-Mobile Zero Rates a large number of streaming audio services,
Proving what, exactly? Are you inferring that that I'm playing favorites, for
some reason? This is why a net neutrality mandate is necessary. Because
otherwise, the broadband providers play favorites. As if your electric utility
were to say, if you buy brand X appliances, we won't charge you for the
electricity used for that appliance. Same old anti-competitive behavior that
you seem unable to grasp.
Thank You. So why do you continue to push for intrusive FCC regulation
instead of promoting competition?
Like I just said, you seem unable to grasp what anti-competitive behavior is.
You seem unable to understand that back in 1906, telephone service had the
potential for being far, far less useful than it turned out to be, for just the
reasons you seem to be promoting here. I think this is caused by your fondness
for walled garden MVPDs.
The neutral utility medium, whether it's a public road, the US Postal Service,
water and sewer service, the electric utility, the telephone network, or the
Internet broadband provider, is not supposed to collude with businesses
operating on that medium. It's supposed to be an even playing field. The FCC is
tasked to ensure this, for telecom services, and has been, for its ENTIRE
EXISTENCE. The only difference today being, what used to be a global network
for voice only, has evolved into being a global network for text, graphics,
audio (including voice of course), and video. Same idea of a global network,
available to the public, but with expanded capabilities.
How bizarre. ESPN is hardly guilty of collusion with the sports leagues.
Groan. Okay, let me elaborate, ever so unnecessarily and laboriously. It is
only due to lack of competition that ESPN was able to finagle a boat load of
unwilling "subscribers," extorting from them the highest monthly fee of any
cable network, in order to pay outrageous salaries to grown men who toss
spheres. ESPN is guilty of nothing. They are merely exploiting a monopoly
marketplace, as any business does, given half a chance. But, as long as the
monopoly was an unessential entertainment network, what the heck, the FCC
didn't need to obsess. Craig, and like-minded, benefitted from this
arrangement, having their sports addiction subsidized very heavily, by those
who couldn't care less about grown men who toss spheres. With the Internet, aka
an advanced telecom service, instead, THE FCC MUST OBSESS. It is in their
charter. The FCC must not allow this same funny business to happen, on the
telecom networks.
The same bundles are appearing on YOUR superior medium Bert
Nothing has changed.
Oh really? So can you point to something I'm paying for that I don't want?
Actually Tim Wu invented the Net Neutrality meme,
Bull crap. The net neutrality concept predates Tim Wu by a century. When I
first read that same comment, from some clueless trade scribe, I practically
fell of my chair. All I had to do is a quick Internet search, to come up with
the true origins of net neutrality. Try, 1903 and 1906. And the USPS, way
before that.
Let me try this again: You made only one cogent comment, in the entire net
neutrality topic. That was when you said that, had Internet access been up to
the cable companies, instead of being up to the telcos, the Internet would have
been walled up. Much like AOL and Compuserve were.
Then, in a show of completely illogical thinking, you said that this would have
been "only temporary." Why, Craig? What neutral Internet model would the
general public, like you, have had? None. Net neutrality ONLY exists, for
Internet service, thanks to Title II. NOTHING ELSE.
Bert
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