If my headline caught your attention, I expect it will soon also cause you to leave, as I have to be up front and say that — yes — this is another article about Net Neutrality.
I chose the title because dial-up can support HD Video, just not in real-time. If you are willing to wait (perhaps an inordinate amount of time) for the download, you can use that technology. But, of course, today dial-up is almost totally gone, as in the U.S. we all now use broadband (and a pitiful variation of that, in comparison to much of the rest of the world).
In 2005 when Ed Whitacre was CEO of ATT he said, “Now what they [Internet upstarts like Google, MSN, Vonage, and others] would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain’t going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it.” Whitacre continued, “So there’s going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they’re using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?”
In this land of equality, I recognize that we have expectations of intolerance when it comes to discrimination of any kind, even when it comes to the last mile(s). It is the first-mile companies, however, that wrote the open letter last week, many of which have boxes that sit at your house and expect connectivity as well as some level of performance. I also understand that the carrier has to meet the desire that everyone receive the same service, regardless of loop length. Does that mean, though, that sites are to be treated equally as well?...Read More
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