AT&T, Verizon Looking for Net Neutrality Compromise
AT&T, Verizon Looking for Net Neutrality Compromise
Posted 06/16/2010 at 3:30pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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The FCC headed by Julius Genachowski has made it clear that Net Neutrality is a top priority. So much so that they intend to boost their authority in order to impose rules on all purveyors of IP data. Both AT&T and Verizon have voiced concern with the prospect of being weighed down by new regulations. The two are now pushing for Congress to intervene and come up with Net Neutrality compromise legislation.
The principal of Net Neutrality holds that an ISP should be required to treat all data in exactly the same way. For instance, an ISP could not filter torrent traffic and delay/ block it. By asking Congress to head the FCC off at the pass, the telecoms are hoping they can lobby their way to weaker regulations.
We're concerned that any congressional action would rules would likely be filled with loopholes enabling ISPs to continue non-neutral practices. Do you think the FCC should move ahead with making rules, or should the legislative branch tackle it?
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ushim6
June 17, 2010 at 6:20am
IF there is actual network congestion, and ONLY done to the highest bandwidth hogs until the congestion goes down.Timmy with his 5000 torrents shouldn't be allowed to take down gramma's email.
Folks it's either that or we get data caps. I know what I'm rooting for...
vig1lant3
June 17, 2010 at 6:28am
So you think you think the ISP's are responsible enough to monitor data traffic without playing favorites, or just dedicating bandwidth to the highest paying customers? The only way we get innovation these days is by forcing it. What reason will there be for AT&T or Verizon to invest money in new, faster, and more capable networks if we allow them to moderate bandwidth unchecked?
canman56
June 17, 2010 at 6:10am
Keep the congress away. Let the FCC take a stab at it first, and see how things go. The pressure will be on the Telco's to sink or swim. Necessity is the mother of learning, maybe forcing their hands will inspire them to innovate and create new technologies like the good old days of Bell Labs, when they created technology instead of gimmicks. I just wish they would spend the money on a solution to the problem instead of buying the congress.
vig1lant3
June 16, 2010 at 7:21pm
Since the FCC was created to regulate all things communication related, why should the legislative branch get involved at all? Certainly seems like the FCC's domain so I can't imagine legislators wanting to get involved unless their pockets are being lined with AT&T or Verizon gold.
Danthrax66
June 16, 2010 at 7:45pm
That is exactly what's happening did you happen to see the letter that 74 democrats wrote to the FCC saying that throttling was good, I mean wtf. I fucking hate this government.
JediBeavis1971
June 16, 2010 at 4:43pm
I just want them to get the high-speed service available where I live! It's still either dial-up or satellite.
Carlidan
June 16, 2010 at 4:19pm
He doesn't care. Anything that involves goverment is bad. Even though the FCC help consumers. Sometimes goverment does have to step in and intervene. And this is one time I think they should.
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”
kevaskous
June 16, 2010 at 4:45pm
you do understand what you're saying is let the companies throttle YOUR internet for any reason they see fit, or packet delay, anything they see fit, or re-route you anywhere they want to get to a location rather then a direct approach?
that is exactly, what you're saying.
s1r 70nk
June 16, 2010 at 3:41pm
I think the FCC should mind their own business and let the ISP's do what they want to do when it comes to data. If the ISP's are to do something they should all do the same. Kinda a joint-op of all the ISP deciding together that way its the same no matter who is your ISP.
Nycromes
June 17, 2010 at 9:06am
The idea of them all getting together and taking action in that way is called collusion and it is generally illegal.
I'm torn on this, I don't like the govt digging their noses in to places in the private sector, but much of america doesn't have great competition for ISPs. This means that you may only have one or two choices in much of the country and if they both implement these types of restrictions, you don't have a choice in the matter. They want to structure the internet more like mobile phone service with extra fees for everything or tiers of service that they can make more money off of. Bunch of greedy jerks if you ask me. I am for regulation if it only states that the ISPs can't regulate traffic in that manner, in that regard I would go the FCC route, as congressional legislation will contain tons of earmarks and pork that are unrelated to the issue at hand.
jlh304
June 16, 2010 at 5:40pm
You want the ISP to be able to block your traffic or say you can't use some types of data traffic. Or that since I live over here in the nice section of town my traffic takes has a higher QoS, because you live in a trailer park? There is no good reason for letting the ISP's do what they want, unless you are the ISP and just want to make more money. Keeping the FCC out of this would be very bad for the consumer.
Danthrax66
June 16, 2010 at 5:07pm
That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever fucking read. Maybe we should have let the steel industry do what it wanted to and not pay extra for overtime and require 12 hour working shifts. Hell maybe we should have let Bill Gates have his monopoly too. The isp's run a monopoly in this country when there is no choice in what service you can get they need to be regulated to ensure we don't get fucked.
jgrimoldy
June 16, 2010 at 4:55pm
Should we just let the oil companies do what they want too? I'm sure they have the public's best interests at heart.
Caboose
June 16, 2010 at 4:14pm
You do realize that the FCC is trying to prevent American ISP's from screwing over consumers (more than they already are), by keeping Net Neutrality going...
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