04-26-2014, 12:13 PM
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Tubes and The FCC?s New Net Neutrality Proposal
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The chairman is proposing to adopt the rules under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
What would Sherlock Holmes do with such an intriguing, completely geeky clue? How will this destroy the Internet, you ask?
First, let me give away the ending first, and then I?ll explain how the clue revealed it all to me.
This is what we already know. The FCC is going to propose that cable and phone companies such as Verizon, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable are allowed to discriminate against them, giving some websites better service and others worse service. Cable and phone companies will be able to make preferred deals with the companies that can afford to pay high fees for better service. They will even be allowed to make exclusive deals, such as making MSNBC.com the only news site on Comcast in the priority tier, and relegating competitors to a slow lane. The FCC is authorizing cable and phone companies to start making different deals with thousands or millions of websites, extracting money from sites that need to load quickly and reliably. So users will notice that Netflix or Hulu works better than Amazon Prime, which buffers repeatedly and is choppy. New sites will come along and be unable to compete with established giants. If we had had such discrimination a decade ago, we would still be using MySpace, not Facebook, because Facebook would have been unable to compete.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_te...you_think.html
If the FCC destroys net neutrality could this kill the tube business model? They are very high bandwidth and the ISPs just might to start charging them for transit. |
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