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Cell Phones Presage Future of Non-Neutral Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The US cell phone network has no network neutrality. This story on NewsForge takes a look at the obstacles to getting a third-party application running on cell phone networks, and explains why the same obstacles could ruin a non-neutral Internet." (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)
You mean to tell me that a company that builds a networking infrastructure actually gets to set the terms by which others are or are not allowed to use it?
Clearly, something must be done!
Luckily, this is the first time in this debate anyone has tried to dumb it down using a metaphor that is possibly misleading to non-geeks.
Now if you'll excuse me, another internet has just come through the tubes for me.
Yeah! That's why AOL never got off the ground... wait...
but history dosen't repeat itself, I'm sure this time around the average public will be much smarter...
Well, People will make informed decisions based upon sound engineering principles, not marketing....
crap, we're all doomed
Yeah but we can put these mobile networks through the airwaves, and we have a huge amount of air space, so it's no problem. In the US however, mobile networks are a series of tubes full of internets and people taking dumps in them, /that's/ the difference.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
That's because cell phone providers have realized that the cell network is not a truck that you just "dump" stuff on. It's a series of tubes. *Microwave* tubes to be exact. Competition has helped the service providers to collectively and concurrently realize this fact.
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