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Oracle And Cisco Both Support The FCC's Rollback Of Net Neutrality (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Hill:
Oracle voiced support on Friday for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's controversial plan to roll back the agency's net neutrality rules. In a letter addressed to the FCC, the company played up its "perspective as a Silicon Valley technology company," hammering the debate over the rules as a "highly political hyperbolic battle," that is "removed from technical, economic, and consumer reality"... Oracle wrote in their letter [PDF] that they believe Pai's plan to remove broadband providers from the FCC's regulatory jurisdiction "will eliminate unnecessary burdens on, and competitive imbalances for, ISPs [internet service providers] while enhancing the consumer experience and driving investment"... Other companies in support of Pai's plan, like AT&T and Verizon, have made the argument that the rules stifled investment in the telecommunications sector, specifically in broadband infrastructure.
Cisco has also argued that strict net neutrality laws on ISPs "restrict their ability to use innovative network management technology, provide appropriate levels of quality of service, and deliver new features and services to meet evolving consumer needs. Cisco believes that allowing the development of differentiated broadband products, with different service and content offerings, will enhance the broadband market for consumers."
Cisco has also argued that strict net neutrality laws on ISPs "restrict their ability to use innovative network management technology, provide appropriate levels of quality of service, and deliver new features and services to meet evolving consumer needs. Cisco believes that allowing the development of differentiated broadband products, with different service and content offerings, will enhance the broadband market for consumers."
Here's a question: are you upset that the site/app you're reading/watching is using your bandwidth to serve ads to you?
If you're on a metered plan, you probably are.
Now take a step back (I know, it's hard) and pretend you're an ISP. Why do I, as an ISP, need to build out my network so that some Silicon Valley company can serve ads to my subscribers when the subscribers don't even want ads?
Let's try something else: 2% of an ISPs base is using 85% of the upstream and downstream bandwidth for torrents. Can you throttle their traffic?
I'm sure a lot of people will say "don't oversell your bandwidth." Yeah sure, welcome to reality. But is it fair to let 2% of your subscribers screw the other 98% of your subscribers? Those 98% are paying customers of both you the ISP and, say, Netflix. Why can't you touch that 2%?
Is throttling a violation of the "net neutrality" regs? I'll bet you don't know, because you never read them. Try reading them. It's not hard.