[Info-vax] US Broadband

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>I was waiting for this one.  Guess what.  They just voted to regulate
>the Internet here under the misnomer "Net Neutrality".  That move has
>all but guaranteed that there will never be Internet where I now live.
>t totally removed any chance of doing at anything but a major financial
>loss.

No, what they voted for was to regulate last mile internet service through 
a public utility commission the way landline telephone service was regulated 
back when landline telephone service worked, and the way that most higher 
grade telco services are regulated today.

Tariffed service has some good points and some bad points and one of the
good points is that it can be used to eliminate the cream-skimming that
currently prevents you from getting real internet service.
--scott


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