Re: [nycwireless] FW: BREAKING NEWS: Commisso Takes Aim at Net Neutrality

[Dustin Goodwin]

Jim,
Since you seems to work with the cable guys. Is the group think 
occurring here that consumers would pay for broadband services if there 
were no content providers? That we all just paying to connect to each 
other? And content providers need to pay beyond basic peering to provide 
content to us? It seems to me that the telcos and cableco have forgotten 
we as consumers pay every month to fund the network. That expression 
"renting their networks" really gets under my skin. If I and everyone 
else didn't pay a hefty sum every month there would be no network. What 
do I get out of this? It seems I am investor in network the providers 
are going to rent to content companies. When do I start getting paid for 
my investment?

- Dustin -

Jim Henry wrote:

I thought folks would find this of interest..

 

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Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Commisso Takes Aim at Net Neutrality

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B R E A K I N G   N E W S

Commisso Takes Aim at Net Neutrality

By John M. Higgins
Broadcasting & Cable
5/8/2006 4:07 PM

In a stark departure from the cable industry's public position, 
Mediacom
Communications Corp. CEO Rocco Commisso decried proposed
"net-neutrality" rules Monday by saying that they keep cable 
operators
from deciding how to "rent" their networks to Web-content 
providers.

"The government is coming and telling us how we can rent our
infrastructure," Commisso told around 200 cable executives at the 
annual
meeting of the American Cable Association, a lobbying group for 
small
cable operators, in Washington, D.C.

The comments are very close to the controversial position of AT&T 
Inc.
chairman Ed Whitacre, who has alarmed Web companies and consumer
advocates by openly declaring that he wants to charge the likes 
of
Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. for access to AT&T's customers. For 
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