Battle For The ‘Net
If you visited today you would have noticed a floating banner that was part of the battleforthenet.com campaign for Internet neutrality.
In my comment I noted that the dual speed system proposed by the telecoms was fraud. They wanted to sell the same item to two different buyers, their bandwidth. I pay my ISP for 5 Mbits of download speed. If they are throttling the sites I visit they are cheating me of the bandwidth I’m paying for. Their network ‘problems’ are the result of selling more bandwidth than they actually have. For large portions of the day I am not using my bandwidth. When I am on line I’m only actually using the full bandwidth when I’m updating software and downloading the new versions, a few times a month. If they were required to actually have in place all of the bandwidth they had sold, there wouldn’t be any ‘problems’.
In their cable company personae they don’t charge the content providers, they pay them. What makes these people think that it is reasonable to charge content providers on the Internet? They quite simply want to sell the same product, my bandwidth, to two different people and that looks like fraud to me.
