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Net Neutrality 5-02-2006

May 2, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Net Neutrality Links

I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.

How Real Is the Threat?

Big telco execs are on the record:

AT&T’s Ed Whitacre wants consumers and content providers to pay for use of his network. “The Internet can’t be free … for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts.�

BellSouth’s William Smith told reporters that he would like to turn the Internet into a “pay-for-performance marketplace� where his company could charge for the “right� to have certain services load faster than others.

Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says that Web applications need to “share the cost� of the broadband services already paid for by consumers. “We need to pay for the pipe.�

Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet

Imagine the prospects of an info tech industry without “software neutrality� where Intel charged a fee to enhance software performance. Pay Intel and your applications run faster. The incentives driving Moore’s Law disappear in this pay-to-play model. Intel’s profit maximizing incentives become serving the interests of software companies willing to spend the most on “enhancing software performance� not the end users of computers. The meritocracy driving competition between software companies disappears as Intel picks winners and losers based on willingness to pay. Innovation becomes permission based at Intel’s discretion. . . .

The Internet does not exist without net neutrality. Consider the misleading assertion that tinkering with network neutrality simply amounts to adding class of service as in the case of air travel or HOV lanes on highways. . . . The telco and cable companies have in mind creating another type of customer not a class of service. They want suppliers to pay for the right of transit. It amounts to airlines charging Time Warner for the right of readers to take Time magazine on an airplane. It means charging Ford tolls in addition to drivers for the right of Ford cars to use highways.

Sen Stevens tries to sneak the Broadcast Flag into law posted by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing

Sen Stevens tries to sneak the Broadcast Flag into law
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has snuck the Broadcast Flag into a bill on Net Neutrality. The stealth clause authorizes “the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy.”
What this means is

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related
NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: AT+T, BellSouth, Ed_Whitacre, Intel, Ivan_Seidenberg, Net_Neutrality, Verizon, William_Smith

Comments

  1. Joe says

    May 2, 2006 at 9:15 AM

    Hey Liz,

    I found this article at the Washington Post written by Robert E. Litan of the Brookings Institute.

    He thinks we would be depriving seniors and veterans of remote medical monitoring if we continue to have a neutral net. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/01/AR2006050101061.html

    Thought you might like to read it.

    Joe

    Reply
  2. ME Strauss says

    May 2, 2006 at 9:19 AM

    Hi Joe!
    Great to hear from you. Thanks for keeping an eye out on the subject. We have to keep things alive and people aware of what’s being talked about. You’re helping a LOT in that effort. I really appreciate that. I know that Martin does too.

    You’re the best.

    Reply
  3. Joe says

    May 2, 2006 at 9:27 AM

    Hey Liz,

    I think it’s improtant to keep the ball rolling. If we go silently into the night, then we deserve whatever they dish out.

    Too many metaphors?

    Joe

    Reply
  4. ME Strauss says

    May 2, 2006 at 9:52 AM

    Hey Joe,
    Personallly I like the picture that come with mixing metaphors. 🙂

    Besides you’re right.

    Reply
  5. Joe says

    May 2, 2006 at 11:13 AM

    Liz,

    It took forever because Blogger is having problems, but I wrote a rebuttal of sorts to the Post’s article on my PolBlog.

    No idea where to send it… Any ideas?

    Joe

    Reply
  6. Joe says

    May 2, 2006 at 11:21 AM

    Ooops, forgot a link for you to look at it.
    http://worldpoliticsinternet.blogspot.com/2006/05/net-neutrality-threatens.html

    Reply
  7. Joe says

    May 2, 2006 at 12:10 PM

    Hye Liz,

    FYI, I wrote a comment on the post at Blinq (Phila Inquirer Blog) where I originally found the article and he actually posted the rebuttal, quoting from my PolBlog.

    Feels good to be recognized… 🙂

    Joe

    Reply
  8. ME Strauss says

    May 2, 2006 at 7:22 PM

    Thanks Joe.
    I like to be recognized too. :0

    Reply
  9. ME Strauss says

    May 2, 2006 at 7:26 PM

    I wish I knew where to to tell you where to go, but i don’t.

    Reply
  10. Tom L says

    May 8, 2006 at 6:36 AM

    I’m trying to get my small NJ town make Verizon address Net Neutrality (Keeping the Internet A Level Playing Field as I call it) as part of their new cable TV franchise agreement. Please feel free to link to http://www.redbanktv.org or stop by to check out what can be done at the local level.

    — Tom

    Reply
  11. ME Strauss says

    May 8, 2006 at 6:46 AM

    Hi Tom,
    Happy to help. There you go.
    Liz

    Reply

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