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Small Cable Groups Seek To Break Net Neutrality
saikou writes "CNet's News.com has a story on the first cable companies openly going against Net Neutrality. As usual, request for equal treatment is labeled as 'special favors', and Google is used as an example of company that should pay for a fast connection to the end user." From the article: "'I think what the phone industry's saying and what we're saying is we've made an investment, and I don't think the government should be coming and telling us how we can work that infrastructure, simple as that,' Commisso said during a panel discussion about issues faced by companies like his, adding, 'Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?'"
switch off googles for cox and see what happens
"Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?"
While the government doesn't really say what exactly to charge for gas, they do insist that prices are at least fair , just as net access should be. Besides, didn't the federal government give huge amounts to cable companies when they pledged to "build fiber optic to the home" back in the nineties? Or was that the telcos? I didn't get a reference to that, but I remember reading about it.
Is it just me, or does the title 'CEO' these days somehow imply criminal in addition to stupid?
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
well, the gov't does tell oil companies where they can and can't drill, which influences the price of oil, so....
:) Might be an interesting sight though!
Also, exploration for oil is also very costly. I am not so sure that you drill a bore hole and see 1s and 0s gushing out and screem 'we have internet'
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Don't bother charging your neighbors, they're small fry. Get a backhoe and a webcam, and then charge the cable company say 4$/Min (more if it's an important cable). Granted it's not the most responsive tool for altering bandwidth, but it is effective.