It's not. And that's the point.
This proposal, and ones similar, stifle growth of applications. If there
are additional (artificial) burdens for operating in a field it becomes
harder to get into. Because it's harder to get into, fewer operators
compete. [Note, we just reduced open competition, one tenet of Net
Neutrality] Because there are fewer operators there will be less
competition. Less competition increases prices and fewer customers take
the service. Because few people use the application, the network
operator has no incentive to support the application well. [Note, we
just reduced the freedom to run applications] Because the network
doesn't support the application well, few people use the application.
It's circular and it slows growth.
Just because there may be inherent challenges to offering an application
(bandwidth, for example), doesn't mean that adding another one (per
application bandwidth caps) is desirable.
Josh Reynolds wrote on 11/20/2015 11:29 AM:
How much medical imaging and video conference and online backup is
done over cell networks? Those are very high bandwidth tasks that
would quickly suck up a data cap. Until LTE came along, doing that was
often hit/miss as far as the reliability of the connection and the
speed.
In an area with LTE, there are often better connectivity options. In
an area without LTE, well, how much medical imaging and data backup is
done over those 3G and satellite connections?
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Blake Hudson <bl...@ispn.net> wrote:
Considering T-Mobile's proposal is intended to favor streaming music and
video services, I think it clearly violates net neutrality which is intended
to not only promote competition in existing applications, but also in new
(possibly undeveloped) applications. This proposal simply entrenches
streaming video/music by artificially reducing the cost to operators in
these fields while leaving costs the same for operators in other fields -
medical imaging, video conferencing, online backup, etc. I believe the sum
affect is a reduction in competition and growth of the internet as a whole,
the antithesis to the spirit of net neutrality.
