November 1, 2006

Net Neutrality 11-01-2006

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 5:38 am

Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Everything on IP

All telephone communications will become IP based Jeff Pulver, Jeff Pulver Blog, October 23, 2006, quoted from Jeff Pulver: All telephone communications will become IP based By Randy Howard, Barbados Advocate, Mon Oct 23 2006

I don’t know what’s more remarkable: that someone clearly says what is the case, or that a newspaper got it right.
Then there’s the corollary: dropping long distance rates incented telcos to abrogate net neutrality, so that they can get their monopoly back without having to come up with new value added services to make money.

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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4 Comments to “Net Neutrality 11-01-2006”

  1. November 1st, 2006 at 7:47 am
    katiebird said

    Good Morning Liz (That was a great party last night)

    I got a letter in the mail from my Senator Brownback (KS). He says, “I believe that this so-called ‘network neutrality’ legislation would be anything but neutral, punishing broadband access providers for innovation and competition. In fact, it is due to the absence of heavy-handed government regulation that the Internet has grown and innovated freely and rapidly.”

    Which isn’t a surprising reaction coming from him. But, I couldn’t help flash through some of your morning Net Neutrality posts (particularly the ones comparing the quality of our Internet service in the US with the standard service in Europe.)

    I would like to have a Senator who believes in effective and good government service and regulation. It bothers me that my Senator thinks all government regulation is bad. It makes me wonder what I’m paying him to do.

  2. November 1st, 2006 at 7:52 am
    ME Strauss said

    Good morning, Katie!
    It took me a minute to go find what I was looking for. . . . It was this.

    . . . Last year, a Supreme Court ruling and Federal Communications Commission decision declared that the Internet does not fall under existing communication service laws, putting Internet regulation in legal limbo. This is from the Net Neutrality post on 10-30-2006

    You see, the regulations were in place when they called the Internet a communication service and they went away when it was reclassified an information service. So Senator Brownback is actually arguing against himself. Because the regulations that were in place is what made the Internet what it is. :)

  3. November 1st, 2006 at 8:02 am
    katiebird said

    Very Interesting . . .

    Do you think it would be worth my time to send him this information. Somehow, I think I’d just get virtually the same letter back again.

  4. November 1st, 2006 at 8:07 am
    ME Strauss said

    You might be right about whether he’d listen. The best document I’ve read is the one by Ed Felten that I ran last Sunday, but his conclusion was to sit on the fence. Scott Ahlsmith’s doc might be the one to send

    http://www.successful-blog.com/1/net-neutrality-grade-3-by-scot-ahlsmith/

    Scott’s been working with Senator Pierce of New Mexico and made some fabulous strides there.

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