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'Super Telco', Net Neutrality Debated in Europe
My Nipples Explode With Delight writes to mention a ZDNet article looking at a proposal for a 'super-telco' regulation board for the EU. The idea was ripped apart, at an event where Net Neutrality in Europe and roaming charges were also discussed. From the article: "'The Commissioner thinks Net neutrality needs to be addressed,' said Blowers, who claimed a lack of relevant regulation in America had led to the issue being so explosive there. 'It is probably not sufficient to just talk about competition powers to deal with Net neutrality,' he continued, before suggesting that, if tiered services were introduced in the UK and Europe, 'there should be sufficient transparency in the market that consumers can make informed choices'."
My Nipples Explode With Delight writes [...]
Now that's something you don't see in Forbes.
Trolling is a art,
I have no idea what the article is about. I got to the "My Nipples Explode With Delight writes" part and cracked up laughing.
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My Nipples Explode With Delight writes...
And so, in the October of 2006 the great slashdot war of dirtiest-handle-on-the-frontpage was begun.
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Oh, there we go. Sorry about that. In other news the Prime Minister of Sweden visited Washington today and my tiny little nipples went to France.
If all my base are belong to you and I attempt to retrieve my base, does that mean I'm freebasing?
Yeah guys username is a bit wierd... but I understand the frustration of trying to pick a username that is not already in use.
Similes are like metaphors
I'm afraid something else "explodes with delight" over there.
TFA actually starts a page before the one linked: here http://tinyurl.co.uk/v1qw
It isn't any more interesting if you actually read it in order though
This article is such a poorly written mess. I've looked over it twice and I don't think I even know which side the EC is taking on net neutrality. (I know, I know, that's what I get for RTFA...)
because all i can do is make comments about the submitters username
I just wanna see the exploding nipples!
"if tiered services were introduced in the UK and Europe, 'there should be sufficient transparency in the market that consumers can make informed choices'."
That's the key to Network Neutrality. The Internet's Tubes have to be see-through so they know what service they are getting.
Oh You POS
...is exactly what the telcos do *not* want. If they actually had to list out all of the under-handed "traffic shaping" (ed. - I realize that there is a necessity for legitimate traffic shaping, but the potential for abuse is the whole point of this discussion) and hidden bandwith-capping that they engage in, then people would know what the whole Net Neutrality* debate is really about.
*I've said it before and I'll say it again, can we please come up with a better sobriquet than "Net Neutrality"?! How the hell am I supposed to get my family and friends interested in "neutrality"?
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
Heaven help us if "DD"s get involved. And you thought a whole egg in the microwave made a mess.
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"Explodes in your mouth. Not in your hands."
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But isn't the whole thing just about that. That if the large supersized telco's limit bandwith my smaller ISP while get affected anyway because the traffic will pass trough the large systems most of the time... So the only thing will be that i KNOW that i have to make a bad choice for an ISP i can't choose one that doesn't limit my traffic, that's to problemn
(I thought about "network NON-DISCRIMINATION" but that sounded too much like it had something to do with eliminating the "digital divide".)
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And almost every comment so far has been about the submitter's username. Maybe i should sign up a new username. "Póg mo thóin"
Let me tell you something about the free market. It's a crock of shit. There's a lot of great laisse faire thinkers out there lauding the idea of zero government interfereance in private affairs, but other forces, such as reality, tend to conflict with their ideals.
Left to its own devices, the market will form a monopoly. With a higher cost of entry, the monopoly will simply form faster. If there was no government oversight, we'd have one worldwide telco/isp/overlord within about 20 years. As it stands we only have less than a dozen tier 1 telcos anyway. Companies so huge they have "Gentlemen's Agreements" instead of monied contracts. What more evidence do you need. It's a cartel!
Now of course, if you have too much regulations, inefficiency, blah, blah, blah. Great, I'll keep it in mind, but at the moment, the internet is rapidly becoming the private demesne of a handful of companies. Companies beholden to no one. I foresee a future where private company regulations superceed any and all rights you or I have to use the internet in the way we want. BellSouth could permanantly blacklist you for irritiating them in your blog.
I say, fuck private companies. The internet, electricity, water, etc, should be public resources, like the air. So if they want to run things, they can do so under a regulator. Oh yeah, and transparently too. You provide a public service, then you've got to do it publically pal. Fuckers paw all our juicy data, but we're not entitled to get their caffeteria menus? Gods danm plutocrats.
May the Maths Be with you!
Most of the existing European telecoms regualtors have done a good job so far - there is nothing that needs fixing, this is just EU land grabbing for the sake of it.
A big European regulator is likely to listen more to industry lobbyists and less to consumers than the national regulators - look at the example of the European Comission, and the corruption in the EU bureaucracy.
What everybody seems to be overlooking is that actual EU regulations committees are completely ignoring Net Neutrality. Check out a critique of the latest EU Telecom Regulations Review