Comments on: The Wall Street Journal Quotes Stop the Cap! Founder & Addresses Internet Overcharging Schemes

By: Stop the Cap! » Comcast’s New Traffic Meter Makes Customer The Traffic Cop; Admits Up to 1GB Represents “Background Traffic”

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:48:16 +0000

[...] updated monthly. Company officials claim the average user consumes just 2-4 gigabytes per month, a debatable figure. Comcast claims about 1% of their subscribers exceed 250GB of usage per month, but does not [...]

By: Wall Street Journal Tries, Fails To Cover Metered Billing Debate - Stop The Cap's Phillip Dampier graciously helps them out... | remove the labels | Gadgets and Life

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:38:57 +0000

[...] the completely consumer funded Stop The Cap website. It’s kind of amusing to see Dampier fact check the Journal’s story for them, highlighting some key points the Journal forgets to touch on — like [...]

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:09:15 +0000

I think the FCC will be taking up that topic eventually. Another story that I’m sure Phillip will be reporting on is the Canadian CRTC passing neutrality rules that force the major carriers to get approval from the CRTC before imposing bandwidth restrictions on minor ISP resellers. It’s a little different scenario in Canada be cause they have the common carrier laws for ISPs that the U.S SHOULD have.

The point Mr. Schmidt is trying to make is that with convergence and technologies, such as IPTV and VoIP, it’s all really just data. We’re at the threshold point now where high-quality, low-latency audio and video data is becoming no different than email or web pages. Pretty soon there’ll be no need to make any differentiation. We’ll all just be talking about who our data provider is…..no CATV, or phone service.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:02:25 +0000

It’s a start. At least they are starting to acknowledge your efforts.

By: KC

KC — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:59:16 +0000

Yeah I bet TWC & others are excited to implement caps as soon as Net Neutrality goes through. I wonder why the FCC won’t be looking at the idea of caps, because it kind of reminds me of the insurance industry problems now, where they all keep raising rates without worry of competition. Using Beaumont as the example, it seems to me that AT&T and TWC would be happy to work together to cap & overcharge people in the cities they compete in, so I am not optimistic about the future.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, seems to be, though, cause he was giving a speech at a conference today. From an article on it:

“Going forward, he talked about how in five years there will be broadband networks that are well above 100 megabits per second, and the technical distinctions between broadcast, cable, radio and the Internet will go away.”

http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2009/10/eric_schmidt_enterprise_system.php

I wonder if he was thinking of Korea or something, cause I don’t see American ISPs ever investing enough for a network like that, especially not in 5 years, and if they did, we certainly couldn’t afford it.

Too bad they didn’t bother to get people’s names right or mention your site, but that’s cool they quoted you. I am surprised to see a neutral article on the subject. I am not looking forward to the day that quote becomes reality.