Comments for Broadband Politics

Comment on Premium Services by Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:43 +0000

Richard, be fair. JZ is no fool, and his material shows he is well aware of the economics of ISPs. I strongly suspect he’d agree with you that prioritization is very possible.

Comment on Premium Services by Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:23:10 +0000

Yeah, that must be where the idea comes from. I’d forgotten all about it, but JZ goes back to that era, he used to be a sysadmin on Compuserve and relates all networking to it.

Comment on Premium Services by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:11:25 +0000

If people are thinking of warm and fuzzy public service clouds, they’re just reminscing about Usenet.

Not that I’m opposed to altruism or even warm and fuzzy feelings.

Comment on We’ve heard this before by Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:42 +0000

Nope. There is nothing new on the sun. All is vanity.

Comment on Wrong Way by Max

Max — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:30:01 +0000

Seth Said:

“But, what possible *feasible* resolution to this conflict could there be, which wouldn’t result in years of lawsuits?”

Come up with a Title III section of regulation that is built around data services.

The fact that cable companies and phone companies both simply added data on as a toy feature (they still make more off of TV and voice) to their residential networks, it’s important to remember that these networks aren’t the best for data. The FCC fail circus-esque attempt to force data services under the old regulatory umbrella is most certainly stopping all investment in proper wireline data (Metro ethernet to the home) in just about every municipality, and leaves the poor Wimax operators floating in the wind.