avaloncourt Wrote: > It's a matter of controlling bandwidth, plain and simple. P2P and media > eat up massive amounts of providers' bandwith so they are actively > targeting packets being used for that purpose along with VoIP. This > goes hand in hand with the new attempts by Verizon to create a 2-tier > Internet. They want to double-dip fees from you and high-bandwith > services by attempting to charge on either end. It hasn't happened yet > but they've made their intentions known quite clearly. They want to > sell you a second tier of Internet access for VoIP, and streaming audio > and video usage while, at the same time, informing Google, Vonage and > others that they will have to pay fees to them for priority access into > their networks.
Hmm. Maybe things aren't as bad in Canada as I thought. Bell's been stuck at 2 Mbps for about 5 years now but at least they're not pulling stunts like that. Wouldn't put it past them to try though. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24388 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
