On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Unfortunately they have to keep their shareholders > > happy first, before they think of me :-) > > Plus I am sure they have heard that suggestion > > countless times already. > > I think there may be a net-netrality case against some of our local ISPs. > > Some are already charging users differently depending on the type, source, > and destination of data they transmit -- rather than charging users solely > based on the /amount/ of data they transmit. > > Orange, for example, offers mobile Internet users access to Facebook for > free. Thus, Orange's Internet is a tiered Internet; Facebook is accessible > to all users (Bronze Plan) while the Uganda LUG is accessible only to users > with access to the entire Internet (Gold Plan). > As much as I am a fan of the idea of Net Neutrality, in practice, we haven't had it for a very long time. When was the last time you were able to run a mail server from your home (uncapped) connection (or a web server for that matter)? We have just been trained over the years to accept less than full Internet service. Now we are being trained to buy Internet like we buy cable/sat TV. <sigh> -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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