Re: Internet Neutrality, an American Debate

Wells,
This is not about regulating the net, but preventing backbone companies and ISPs (eg Verizon, MCI/UUNet) from throttling bandwith to other companies or services.

The bill basically would prevent ccompanies such as Verizon, who is partnered with Microsoft (MSN), from giving preferential bandwith or higher speed to MSN services like MSN Search or Urge over Google or iTunes, with whom MS is competeing with.

Imagine this, MS goes into a contract with Verizon to get the best speeds for its services and its competitors would be relegated to a second tier service that limited access speeds.

Here are three scenarios using Verizon FiOS Service (15Mb to 200Mb fibre optic based internet service for home and business):

1. Everytime you went to use Google to search the web, the results came back at dialup speed while MSN Search's results came back with at the full speed of the connection.

2. The Urge service from MS could download a whole movie or album almost instantly while Apple's iTunes would take hours.

3. You go to download a linux distro or open office and find that there will be an 80 hour wait, while Windows Live and office Live are right there and willing to run.

Which service would you choose? Probably the faster service, at the detriment of the others.

That is what they mean by net neutrality, everyone has the same level of access.

Jeremy

Wells wrote:
Debate Simmering in US Over Regulation of Internet

A heated debate is shaping up in Washington about a concept some
activists are calling Internet network neutrality, known more popularly
as net neutrality. At issue are calls for the U.S. government to
regulate the Internet, and, in effect, opponents say, determine which
companies get bigger shares of the profits.

To read the full text, please go to:
http://www.contactomagazine.com/internetdebate0606.htm

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