Two Tiered Internet
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Thu Dec 15 01:12:20 UTC 2005
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:28:06PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
> > i am not paying for it. my bills indicate that i -am-
> > paying for it. (regardless of priority... after all, the
> > Internet is "best-effort" ... and w/ QoS, i don't get that
> > anymore... i get the choice to buy crap instead of best effort...)
> > Best effort is the top-tier of the QoS/priority pyramid... as
> > sad as that is.
>
> You start with a flawed assumption, you end up with wrong conclusions.
> Who said this had anything to do with "the Internet"?
well... the press? the telco marketing droids??
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= Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet
= Major site owners oppose 2-tier system
= By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | December 13, 2005
= <http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/12/13/
= telecoms_want_their_products_to_travel_on_a_faster_internet/>
=
= AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right
= to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own
= Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently
= than those of their competitors.
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darn that pesky Internet word keeps cropping up.
to borrow a phrase; "... I do not think it means what
you think it means..." - Princess Bride
> Instead, this is about additional private network services, which cable
> companies already do over coax, that telco's want to offer over a
> multiservice access line in addition to "the Internet." Coax can carry
> over a Gigibit of data, but cable companies usually sell user's less
> than 10Mbps for Internet data. Cable companies reserve the rest of
> the their network capacity for private services like HBO, video on
> demand and voice. Just because part of a physical line is used for
> Internet service doesn't mean everything going across the same line
> is the Internet.
sure... if thats really the case.
> The telephone companies are asking for the same ability to sell multiple
> services over the same physical line. Cable companies didn't make their
> Internet service slower when they add more private services, why do
> people expect the telephone companies to make their Internet service
> worse when the telephone companies add private services to their network?
they should not call it "the Internet" then should they? :)
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