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[ NNSquad ] Re: FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet

With all respect to Dr. Farber and Wired, there is a fatal flaw in their argument.  Unlike natural resources which when used up are gone, available bandwidth will increase over time.  We do hope that our networks get bigger faster than we need the bandwidth, but sometimes that is not the case.  Yet, it seemed to me that the article overstated what they called the "capacity problem."

We live in a world where the typical home user formerly had a 300 baud modem over POTS.  That speed increased to 1200 baud, and eventually 56K baud.  Our oh-so familiar Ethernet started at 10Mbit/s, then to 100Mbit/s, 1Gbit/s and now we can buy switches at 10Gbit/s.  With that trend, we can expect network speeds to increase over time.

I for one applaud the FCC for doing what needs to be done.  Even the ancient Romans understood that free and open roads are needed for efficient commerce.



On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote:

Uh, haven't the major U.S. ISPs been in the process of killing (or
threatening to kill) "unlimited Internet" for quite some time,
irrespective of these new FCC proposals?  After all, the big money for
most of the dominant ISPs now is in content, and if subscribers find
it economically impractical to, for example, watch videos from outside
services, since they keep hitting the usage limitations unilaterally
imposed by ISPs, well, them's the breaks, right?

--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator

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----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> -----

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:10:22 -0400
From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: [IP] FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet |
       Epicenter | Wired.com
Reply-To: dave@farber.net
To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

With quote by me

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/fcc-neutrality-mistake/




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