Re: [PLUG] Net Neutrality

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

Please don't hear me as being in favor of government-sanctioned monopoly players either. The problems with cable providers are manifold, obviously: rights-of-way, heavy capital investments, and long haul fibre networks are expensive and time consuming. 

I think the ideal situation is one in which each market has multiple types of providers, ie cable/FiOS/DSL/Wimax. Each might have a "monopoly" on their method of traffic delivery in am area but they would compete across technologies. 

And, in some areas, this is already the case. I'm all for removing whatever barriers to that end result exist in any given market and any Gov't sanctions that encourage such ought to be blown up post haste. 

--
Doug Stewart

On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:23 AM, "Bill Patterson" <patterson@computer.org> wrote:

> I am no authority on net neutrality, BUT, competition doesn't work if a monopolistic company is allowed to, as they say, "restrain trade" by grabbing one kind of bottleneck or another [such as the company that laid out a lot of cable who then decides if you want to use their cable you have faster service only if you go to Web sites that pay them an extra fee].
> 
> Bill
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Stewart" <zamoose@gmail.com>
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>> Not everyone's fer it -- I, for one, am agin' it. I'd rather have companies, competing against each other, with a small measure of accountability to their customers "in charge" of this field, as opposed to nameless, faceless gov't bureaucrats with zero accountability and no market pressures to keep them in check.
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>> --
>> Doug Stewart
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>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am sure many or most of you are in favor of net neutrality. Not sure if
>>> signing this really means anything but not doing anything won't help
>>> either.
>>> 
>>> http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/obama_net_neutrality_1/index2.html?r=6647&id=13138-3418948-R5qu1Yx
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