At 12/10/2010 10:45 PM, Rick Harnish wrote: >CW, > >It appears as though they may be backing off trying to control billing >methods. However, they are pushing heavily to void the ability for WISPs to >manage their network traffic. That will mean no QOS, no bursting, no >blocking of websites or controlled traffic flows. We all know what the >impact of this decision will have on our businesses.
Or they will allow "reasonable network management", where "reasonable" is defined by whoever has the biggest law firm. For Verizon and ATT, anything goes. For somebody they don't like, fuggedabout it. I do however note the relatively small amount of leverage they have over most WISPs, who are entirely under Part 15. What little authority the FCC may claim to have over content (and this Order WILL be enjoined and thrown out in court, probably just after the next election, since it's purely a political game) comes from claims of consumer protection, based on whether you are doing what they claim you claim to be doing (i.e., what it means to be using the word "Internet"). So one option for WISPs is to simply stop selling "Internet" service per se and start selling "online differentiated data services with managed Internet access" instead. It sounds like a joke but then so is the whole NN proceeding, so you fight it with their terms rather than on their terms. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
