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The Cost of Internet Fast Lanes: Bloomberg News confronts James Cronin, chief technology officer for Venda, with the industry view that telecom companies need more investment to upgrade and expand their broadband networks. Cronin thinks eliminating Net Neutrality would be a real mess. (5:11)
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The Federal Communications Commission is on the brink of changing the Net Neutrality principle, which allows consumers unfettered access to web content, and limits the ability of Internet service providers to block or filter material. New guidelines would allow some companies to charge more for faster service. PBS’ Gwen Ifill talks to Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post about what’s at stake. (6:40)
Phil, most people are missing the fact that there are two separate, but related issues: 1) bill and keep is not a solution to the byzantine and inefficient settlements of old. But networks still need settlements to clear supply and demand both north-south (apps and infrastructure) and east-west (between networks and/or end-users and apps/content/managed services) in the informational stack. 2) everything revolves around open or equal access in layers 1 or 2 to provide real choice in the last mile. But I think Title II will be hard to achieve, unless the pro-competitive forces come together in a concerted fashion.… Read more »
We may have to move to open access I suppose, which is a variant of what Canada is doing with broadband (wholesale access to third party ISPs is mandatory for telcos/cable — hence flat rate Internet is back and the incumbents were forced to move in that direction as well). We have a big problem with the regulators in this country on the federal level who are way too friendly with the regulated. That isn’t surprising, considering how many end up working for them after their public service is finished. It seems less true in the northeast where state regulators… Read more »
Phil, you don’t address the issue that the IP stack lacks price signals to clear supply/demand north-south and east west. Until the market understands that the data stack evolved as an arbitrage of inefficient settlements first (core voice origination and termination; aka long-distance) and secondly of inefficient business models (vertically integrated balkanized edge access providers) stakeholders won’t even begin to understand what balanced settlements look like that replace originating and terminating access between networks or between upper and lower layers. Time to completely divest ourselves of 100 year old thinking that was perpetuated in 1934. What’s going on here is… Read more »