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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear you are thinking about this in a way that doesn't make sense. I explained it like this yesterday, which helps to explain the issue.
The better way to look at this would be Title II and Net Neutrality protected your access (the internet service speed you pay for) from being throttled by a service provider.
To go off of @momurda example, you pay for water at your residence. Unfettered, as much pressure as you can get out of the tap and shower heads. The water authority didn't have any way to get you to pay more for water, but has been trying to for decades, but they weren't allowed to throttle your water pressure.
Now they are allowed to throttle your water pressure, and for a fee you can have your full water pressure back.
Imagine it like that, except that you will never be able to afford what the water company wants to charge for you to have full water pressure back.
You literally would have no options to have better water pressure (internet speed), you would have no recourse to get your performance back, and you would only have one option to get what you need (and you may not even get what you actually need). Which would be paying more for your internet or services.
I think we are getting to the heart of it, because you STILL have no options here. You, the end user, are not protected. The FCC is not setup to handle this.Comcast has throttled Netflix before, during, and will continue to after. There is nothing the consumer can do. The content provider would have to take action. Netflix was already fighting Comcast before NN.
There is no Netflix 2 out there or poor small service that ISP's are worried about throttling. And watch Netflix over the years, as the grow into a monopoly. Amazon used to bitch and moan about paying sales tax, fought it tooth and nail early on. Now that it achieved monopoly status they are all for it. There just used it to compete aginst brick and mortar stores.
Also, with title ii and voice we split the bill. I pay so much $$$ to take your call (akin to MB's now with its application to the internet) and you pay so much to send your call minutes to my network.
The FCC's use of Title ii and NN allows them to assign a value of $0 and set all kinds of fees between providers. In some situations small ISP's are screwed over because they are forced to carry connections that cost more than they are making. ISP's have been fighting over this since the early 2000's and NN did not "brilliantly" solve the dispute in any way,.
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear you are thinking about this in a way that doesn't make sense. I explained it like this yesterday, which helps to explain the issue.
The better way to look at this would be Title II and Net Neutrality protected your access (the internet service speed you pay for) from being throttled by a service provider.
To go off of @momurda example, you pay for water at your residence. Unfettered, as much pressure as you can get out of the tap and shower heads. The water authority didn't have any way to get you to pay more for water, but has been trying to for decades, but they weren't allowed to throttle your water pressure.
Now they are allowed to throttle your water pressure, and for a fee you can have your full water pressure back.
Imagine it like that, except that you will never be able to afford what the water company wants to charge for you to have full water pressure back.
You literally would have no options to have better water pressure (internet speed), you would have no recourse to get your performance back, and you would only have one option to get what you need (and you may not even get what you actually need). Which would be paying more for your internet or services.
I think we are getting to the heart of it, because you STILL have no options here. You, the end user, are not protected. The FCC is not setup to handle this.Comcast has throttled Netflix before, during, and will continue to after. There is nothing the consumer can do. The content provider would have to take action. Netflix was already fighting Comcast before NN.
There is no Netflix 2 out there or poor small service that ISP's are worried about throttling. And watch Netflix over the years, as the grow into a monopoly. Amazon used to bitch and moan about paying sales tax, fought it tooth and nail early on. Now that it achieved monopoly status they are all for it. There just used it to compete aginst brick and mortar stores.
The point here though is that now NetFlix has no recourse at all. Netflix can't go to the FCC or congress or anyone to have a legal recourse to being able to service their customers.
There is nowhere to turn too, to resolve any throttling or abusive behavior by the ISPs.
So let's take your business, you sell hardware and offer VOIP phone services, but you probably use comcast or level 3 or someone like that.
If your ISP starts their own VOIP service, they can literally throttle your bandwidth (even if you are paying for 1Gbe up and down) until you either go out of business, or pay an additional fee. Just because you are competition to a service they offer.
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And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear you are thinking about this in a way that doesn't make sense. I explained it like this yesterday, which helps to explain the issue.
The better way to look at this would be Title II and Net Neutrality protected your access (the internet service speed you pay for) from being throttled by a service provider.
To go off of @momurda example, you pay for water at your residence. Unfettered, as much pressure as you can get out of the tap and shower heads. The water authority didn't have any way to get you to pay more for water, but has been trying to for decades, but they weren't allowed to throttle your water pressure.
Now they are allowed to throttle your water pressure, and for a fee you can have your full water pressure back.
Imagine it like that, except that you will never be able to afford what the water company wants to charge for you to have full water pressure back.
You literally would have no options to have better water pressure (internet speed), you would have no recourse to get your performance back, and you would only have one option to get what you need (and you may not even get what you actually need). Which would be paying more for your internet or services.
I think we are getting to the heart of it, because you STILL have no options here. You, the end user, are not protected. The FCC is not setup to handle this.Comcast has throttled Netflix before, during, and will continue to after. There is nothing the consumer can do. The content provider would have to take action. Netflix was already fighting Comcast before NN.
There is no Netflix 2 out there or poor small service that ISP's are worried about throttling. And watch Netflix over the years, as the grow into a monopoly. Amazon used to bitch and moan about paying sales tax, fought it tooth and nail early on. Now that it achieved monopoly status they are all for it. There just used it to compete aginst brick and mortar stores.
The point here though is that now NetFlix has no recourse at all. Netflix can't go to the FCC or congress or anyone to have a legal recourse to being able to service their customers.
There is nowhere to turn too, to resolve any throttling or abusive behavior by the ISPs.
So let's take your business, you sell hardware and offer VOIP phone services, but you probably use comcast or level 3 or someone like that.
If your ISP starts their own VOIP service, they can literally throttle your bandwidth (even if you are paying for 1Gbe up and down) until you either go out of business, or pay an additional fee. Just because you are competition to a service they offer.
So again, I totally agree with some of the premises here, but they have been long discussed well before 2014.
We have our own interconnection to the voice network as a CLEC, so we do not buy from those providers per se. We send traffic back and forth and pay both ways. Title ii was created to keep those rates under control, to set pricing between carriers. Data doesnt get billed this way so Title ii was a bad fit.
I think thats the bigger discussion point here. The idea the NN was somehow a silver bullet. There were 2 or 3 schools of thought for well over the decade discussed and suddenly Wheeler crammed through his iteration and going against it means that you hate the internet.
There was much better, more specific legislation already on the table to target throttling that was built around the end user. Basically the FCC now can control the parts of the internet that you wouldn't want. Depending on which politcal party is in power it can be abused because of the Title ii application.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
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@bigbear what legislation was written or drafted?
And you may be getting your service from your own interconnect, but it's at the end of your connection that the throttling can (likely will occur).
And not only does this effect you, but your customers who use any number of ISPs will also be charged more to use the bandwidth that they are already paying for at a set performance range. IE 60/6 or whatever else.
They too would see their new bill and say, you know what it isn't worth working with @bigbear because he can't get pricing better than ComCast can. I'm going to close shop with @bigbear and just work directly with ComCast.
This puts you out of business.
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Net Neutrality was there to equate all packets (of any kind) equally. So you wouldn't be charged more or less based on what you wanted to do with the service you had already paid for.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Net Neutrality was there to equate all packets (of any kind) equally. So you wouldn't be charged more or less based on what you wanted to do with the service you had already paid for.
Agree with this concept for the end user, but NN doesnt do much here. Users were never going to put up with this. Title ii makes all packets the same between the actual ISPs, it allows the FCC to set pricing at interconnection all the way down to $0.
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
Right, and Time Warner actually did this. And if they did it again Title ii and NN gave me no more power than I had then because I can not afford to sue them, and I dont have a hotline to call to get immediate action. So NN offers me nothing as well.
Since we were also an ISP in Kentucky where this was happening with Time Warner, Time Warner lost the customers voice and then also lost their data business because we provided them with an internet connection to resolve the overall issue.
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
Right, and Time Warner actually did this. And if they did it again Title ii and NN gave me no more power than I had then because I can not afford to sue them, and I dont have a hotline to call to get immediate action. So NN offers me nothing as well.
Since we were also an ISP in Kentucky where this was happening with Time Warner, Time Warner lost the customers voice and then also lost their data business because we provided them with an internet connection to resolve the overall issue.
NN and Title II made it impossible for the ISPs to do this entirely. Now nothing at all stops them from putting you out of business.
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Let me take a second to summarize how I agree with you guys and what I believe, and how NN seemed like the most bizarre solution to a long time ISP/Operator.
1.) End users have a right to equally access their content of choice. NN doesn't offer to take and mediate a user complaint though.
2.) ISP's should work out their own backend agreements. NN inserts government control here that actually could hurt the small ISP.
3.) Pai is an evil trump lackee. This guy's legislation has always made good sense to me, and over the years has mostly been blocked until Trump put him in power. As I understand it, after being appointed he has spent a very brief time with Trump. Everything he is doing is what he proposed before NN was railroaded into place. All of these concerns will be addresses without giving the FCC control over the internet.
So that is my position. It seems we all agree on the problem. I CERTAINLY understand the problem and have been thinking about it for over a decade, watching all manor of arguments and ideas come and go. Thought the use of Title ii had so many downsides, just didnt agree with it.
Net Neutrality as it was originally described in the early 2000's is what everyone wants, and I want it. The bill called "Net Neutrality" was just an iteration of Net Neutrality that highjacked the branding.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
Right, and Time Warner actually did this. And if they did it again Title ii and NN gave me no more power than I had then because I can not afford to sue them, and I dont have a hotline to call to get immediate action. So NN offers me nothing as well.
Since we were also an ISP in Kentucky where this was happening with Time Warner, Time Warner lost the customers voice and then also lost their data business because we provided them with an internet connection to resolve the overall issue.
NN and Title II made it impossible for the ISPs to do this entirely. Now nothing at all stops them from putting you out of business.
I agree, but creating a utility out of something that is not a utility never sat well with me. There was better legislation put forth and I will look up and post it, from 2012 on. I feel like a better starting place would be to make throttling illegal, not allowing the FCC to take over the internet.
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@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
Right, and Time Warner actually did this. And if they did it again Title ii and NN gave me no more power than I had then because I can not afford to sue them, and I dont have a hotline to call to get immediate action. So NN offers me nothing as well.
Since we were also an ISP in Kentucky where this was happening with Time Warner, Time Warner lost the customers voice and then also lost their data business because we provided them with an internet connection to resolve the overall issue.
NN and Title II made it impossible for the ISPs to do this entirely. Now nothing at all stops them from putting you out of business.
I agree, but creating a utility out of something that is not a utility never sat well with me. There was better legislation put forth and I will look up and post it, from 2012 on. I feel like a better starting place would be to make throttling illegal, not allowing the FCC to take over the internet.
@bigbear you must be forgetting that the FCC attempted to setup NN without the use of Title II, and was crushed in a court of law by Verizon. The judge recommended that the FCC try and classify ISP's as utilities and thus Title II was required to setup NN.
Therefor your argument here of having the ability to protect service providers like yourself up to Netflix and Google is impossible in the court of law without Title II.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
And all they have to do is update their ToS saying that they will throttle any competitive services on their network that they do not own and operate.
Unless an additional fee is paid to have that 1GBe service (which you're already paying for).
I realize this is the FUD that is driving this. From the ISP side this never happened before and while I believe some kind of specific law was eventually going to come about we didn't need to turn the internet into a government controlled utility to accomplish it.
As I said in my last post, I would rather not have either political directly managing my internet. And that is truly what the law accomplished. The internet is not water or minutes, its all kinds of different data and media from different political viewpoints.
Throttling and eliminating competitive services on individual ISP networks as absolutely happened.
Here is an article from 2011 were Verizon literally blocked people from using Google Pay, and forced them to only use their own solution.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
This is a great example, but do you see that was 2011. Verizon did not block this all the way until NN took affect. The market fixed it.
At the cost of billions of dollars. Imagine this was your VOIP service that you offer. Verizon just decides to block all connections from devices on their network to your servers so people have to use V-Chat instead.
You'd be out of business before market correction could ever occur because YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THAT KIND OF ABUSE.
Right, and Time Warner actually did this. And if they did it again Title ii and NN gave me no more power than I had then because I can not afford to sue them, and I dont have a hotline to call to get immediate action. So NN offers me nothing as well.
Since we were also an ISP in Kentucky where this was happening with Time Warner, Time Warner lost the customers voice and then also lost their data business because we provided them with an internet connection to resolve the overall issue.
NN and Title II made it impossible for the ISPs to do this entirely. Now nothing at all stops them from putting you out of business.
I agree, but creating a utility out of something that is not a utility never sat well with me. There was better legislation put forth and I will look up and post it, from 2012 on. I feel like a better starting place would be to make throttling illegal, not allowing the FCC to take over the internet.
@bigbear you must be forgetting that the FCC attempted to setup NN without the use of Title II, and was crushed in a court of law by Verizon. The judge recommended that the FCC try and classify ISP's as utilities and thus Title II was required to setup NN.
Therefor your argument here of having the ability to protect service providers like yourself up to Netflix and Google is impossible in the court of law without Title II.
I definitely don't forget.
As I posted in the beginning I am always open to having my mind change. But as a small ISP this is something we watched very closely back to 2005.
My first hand experience as a small ISP was that we suddenly had the added expense of new lawyers and filings to prove we were keeping up with NN. The cost bump was over $10k/month. Thats the cost of a couple new employees to a company that didnt even have 20 employees. So I was definitely more interested in the other ways throttling could be solved.
And data doesn't run like water back to providers. The idea of us paying for a "Fast lane" to Netflix was actually appealing to us. Netflix is an unbelievable amount of our total traffic.
So it just isnt as simple as "if you want NN then you need to support this iteration of NN".
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If anyone is concerned with seeing more ISP competition and supporting the small ISP, this is a good read...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/13/15949920/net-neutrality-killing-small-isps
It explains both sides of the argument pretty well from the small ISP perspective.
@NerdyDad for example might be interested in their cost estimates to startup ISPs. When this hit we were a lot bigger than a startup WISP. They estimate $40k/year in legal/filing costs to be compliant with NN. At $120/year we were just getting ramped up.
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Ahh so @bigbear that is where the rub is. You as a business owner saw a bump in cost to be in business. Thus thought it was unfair.
The issue here though is you may never be able to get into business now because an ISP can force you to pay them 10 times as much as what you had to pay lawyers back then to just get access to cross their networks.
And there is literally nothing you can do to stop it.
All the big ISPs have to do is make a statement saying they are doing this, and you're done for.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:
Ahh so @bigbear that is where the rub is. You as a business owner saw a bump in cost to be in business. Thus thought it was unfair.
The issue here though is you may never be able to get into business now because an ISP can force you to pay them 10 times as much as what you had to pay lawyers back then to just get access to cross their networks.
And there is literally nothing you can do to stop it.
All the big ISPs have to do is make a statement saying they are doing this, and you're done for.
LOL no, as I stated in my original post getting competitively priced Tier 1 access has never been an issue and never will be. I dont know where everyone gets that idea from. The Tier 1 providers we buy internet routes from do not sell direct internet to consumers. We don't buy from Comcast, etc. And as an autonomous network with its own IP range we have BGP and multiple routes to the internet. Throttling would not be effective upstream from us. BGP would switch lanes in about 5ms.
