news.zdnet.com— Network operators would be barred from blocking or degrading Internet connections and favoring those you would offer them sweeter deals.
Mar 3, 2006View in Crawl 4
Internet mumbo-jumbo aside... why can't I pay to go faster in my car on the real highway? Seriously, I have been wanting to do this for years. Either that or make driver's licenses harder to obtain. Driving for a week in Germany made me hate American drivers... move over! use your blinker! you aren't passing, so get in the right lane! :)
Free markets don't have anything to do with it. Those extra surcharges on your phone and cable bill? they were meant for these quasi-monopolies to build the infrastructure for a high speed internet. What did we get? Zip, nada! We are the slowest broad-band in the advanced countries! Sub 1Mbps! Look at Europe and Japan... in the multi-Mbps range.Basically the Telcos and Cable took the money, threw in some fiber lines, and we are still the slowest connections in the advanced countries!It's about time someone took these monopolies and asked them "what did you do with all that money?"No offense, but your comment about free markets shows how little you know about the background on this. Please, in the future research the subject a bit, I would welcome an informed opinion :)Diggers... start digging. I agree with all those here that say this needs to go to the top. Dugg.
While I don't necessarily agree with your point, I'll give it a digg since you are basing it on facts.But, wasn't that what we were paying for already with the extra surcharges? Say, the only player in town is TelcoA that I can get service from (many rural places...) I then get penalized with a throtlled down bandwidth because TelcoA couldn't reach a deal like TecloB? or it's traffic has to go through TelcoB?Point is, we've all paid into these monopolies to build an infrastructure so no matter where I'm at, I can count on consistent traffic bandwidth no matter where I surf.
osbjmgMar 4, 2006
Internet mumbo-jumbo aside... why can't I pay to go faster in my car on the real highway? Seriously, I have been wanting to do this for years. Either that or make driver's licenses harder to obtain. Driving for a week in Germany made me hate American drivers... move over! use your blinker! you aren't passing, so get in the right lane! :)
sandrat44Mar 6, 2006
Free markets don't have anything to do with it. Those extra surcharges on your phone and cable bill? they were meant for these quasi-monopolies to build the infrastructure for a high speed internet. What did we get? Zip, nada! We are the slowest broad-band in the advanced countries! Sub 1Mbps! Look at Europe and Japan... in the multi-Mbps range.Basically the Telcos and Cable took the money, threw in some fiber lines, and we are still the slowest connections in the advanced countries!It's about time someone took these monopolies and asked them "what did you do with all that money?"No offense, but your comment about free markets shows how little you know about the background on this. Please, in the future research the subject a bit, I would welcome an informed opinion :)Diggers... start digging. I agree with all those here that say this needs to go to the top. Dugg.
sandrat44Mar 6, 2006
While I don't necessarily agree with your point, I'll give it a digg since you are basing it on facts.But, wasn't that what we were paying for already with the extra surcharges? Say, the only player in town is TelcoA that I can get service from (many rural places...) I then get penalized with a throtlled down bandwidth because TelcoA couldn't reach a deal like TecloB? or it's traffic has to go through TelcoB?Point is, we've all paid into these monopolies to build an infrastructure so no matter where I'm at, I can count on consistent traffic bandwidth no matter where I surf.
sandrat44Mar 6, 2006
Here's a related Digg article: (sorry I haven't read all comments and appologize in advance if it's a duplicate).<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/technology/Hands_Off_Our_Internet_">http://digg.com/technology/Hands_Off_Our_Internet_</a>