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To: FredZarguna
What you're really saying is that you don't want to pay those prices: but I'm not responsible for where you live, and broadband providers aren't either. And broadband access isn't a right.

No, what I'm saying is that if the two broadband providers sell me unfiltered access for my network traffic to transit through their network, I want them to actually deliver.

The government didn't pay Comcast to drag cable to my house or Verizon to pull fibre to my door.

Try getting cable from another provider. You can't. Or maybe telephone service from another provider. Nope, you can't.

Absent the principles of "net neutrality" in how traffic is passed from network to network, if Verizon wants to sell me a $200/month VoIP plan, they can just degrade or outright block Skype traffic originating from my home.

As I said earlier, "if you want a free market, fine." No government-mandated "net neutrality," and allow for full competition in cable and telco access to homes and businesses instead of the government-granted monopoly status that is the situation today.

35 posted on 10/20/2009 5:15:23 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385
Nonsense. I can buy telephone service from no less than a dozen different providers, and I don't live in a big city.

Who is stopping anyone from pulling cable to your house? [Hint: No one].

What's now called "net neutrality" is not fundamentally different from the common carrier requirements enforced on the telcos in the 1980's.

What was the result?

The infrastructure degraded rapidly, or was simply left to attrition, because it was in no one's interest to upgrade their hardware for the benefit of their freeloading "competition."

I repeat: there is NOTHING stopping 90 different access providers from serving you. Now, ask yourself the question why don't they?

39 posted on 10/20/2009 5:21:42 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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