[opendtv] Re: Verizon to start throttling all smartphone videos to 480p or 720p
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:05:05 -0400
On Sep 3, 2017, at 8:24 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ironic. I'd call it karma. Tom Wheeler was well on his way to exempting
wireless, and even finding some other route than Title II. The courts stepped
in, people got super pissed, as they are doing again, and the rest is history.
No Bert. Obama stepped in and told Wheeler to take the most aggressive
approach, endorsed by the courts that Obama stacked.
"According to Quinn, that's also off-base. AT&T makes its sponsored-data
program available to all content providers on the same terms and conditions
as it does for DirecTV, he maintained. The rates the telco offers to third
parties are "as low as the market-based rates AT&T currently offers even to
wireless resellers who commit to significant purchase volumes," the AT&T exec
wrote."
AT&T here appears to be doing the right thing, and I'm pretty sure that Title
II would not prevent any of it. Title II *should* prevent exclusive
arrangements.
The Wheeler FCC was already heading down the path to making Zero Rating illegal
last December. There are still millions of people arguing that Zero Rating
should be illegal, with the EFF taking the lead. This is what a 2016 report
from the Wheeler FCC concluded about Zero Rating:
CONCLUSION
Mobile broadband providers are experimenting with a variety of sponsored data
and zero- rating initiatives. While this dynamic environment has benefited
consumers, these business arrangements may raise many of the same economic
and public policy issues involving network owners that the Commission has
long considered. In particular, sponsored data offerings by vertically
integrated mobile broadband providers may harm consumers and competition in
downstream industry sectors by unreasonably discriminating in favor of select
downstream providers, especially their own affiliates
And this article looks at a debate between Netflix and soon to be FCC Chairman
Pai about Internet Fast Lanes; Pai is asking why Netflix is not supporting
industry standards for Open Connect, an initiative to develop open standards
for "Inside the edge" servers, AKA co-located content servers.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/07554829415/netflix-patiently-explains-to-fcc-commissioner-pai-that-cdns-are-perfectly-normal-not-diabolical-fast-lanes.shtml
Still, if the result of these arrangements appears to be exclusive, as they
did in this case, then it should be the FCC's job to figure out why. As they
were correctly doing.
It was none of their business. In the 2015 Open Internet Order they
specifically said that Zero Rating was popular and provided benefits to
consumers. It only took a year, and pressure from the EFF and others, to get
the Wheeler FCC to consider banning Zero Rating.
So, let me explain this to you, because it's quite simple. The FCC now is
only after the best interests of the special interests involved.
THANK YOU Bert!
I am in 100% agreement.
Now please tell us who the special interest are that they are protecting.
Undo any regulation, and allow the special interests to have free rein.
Isn't that exactly what this latest flap is caused by? This FCC couldn't
care less, if the broadband provider colludes with the content owner.
In part you are correct. This is a battle between the legacy "special
interests" who were historically regulated by the FCC until the deregulation
that took place in the '90s, and the new Internet services, which are
advantaged by the 2015 Title II order. The difference today is that under Title
II, the FCC is now regulating ISPs in a manner that disadvantages them relative
to the new internet monopolies.
You're being disingenuous. These rebates are offered to those who install
high efficiency systems, NOT systems of a particular brand. If they were
offered only in collusion with a particular brand, you'd see a huge backlash,
and law suits.
I am being completely honest. I had the choice of several brands, but the end
result was that my electric utility paid me to choose from their list of
approved "appliances."
I understand exactly what happened a century ago Bert.
Then please don't waste time dredging up this other canard about Tim Wu. The
concept of neutral infrastructures is ages old, and it has always been
motivated to promote interstate commerce.
FOTFL
The hundred year old culture was created via an alliance of industrialists and
politicians seeking government protection from competition.
It has succeeded beyond the wildest expectations of the politicians and the
regulators, expanding to pick winners and losers in evolving technologies so as
to protect the special interests, and to control "speech" and influence our
culture...
I am NOT talking about the "Internet Culture," here.
Regards
Craig
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