US backing for two-tier internet

[4play]

The whole thing is a big scam by the phone companies in America. They are screaming about not being able to afford the upgrades necessary to keep up with the users increasing love of bandwidth hungry apps (p2p, tv and youtube). They need to introduce caps if they cant keep up with demand and use the extra money they charge the heavy users to upgrade the network.

They are also very worried they are going to shoot themselves in the foot by just becoming a company that supplies the one connection to your house that is used for tv, voip and the www. the problem is there is no real money to be made there so this is their stab at keeping them on the gravy train.

Its never gonna work really google, Microsoft and anyone else they try to shake down has as many lobbyists in washington to counter there arguements as the phone companies have. can you imagine google's homepage displaying a nice little message about which phone companies not to use and a phone number to ring since they slow down traffic. that would soon put an end to any slowdown.

If it ever did pass im sure there would be universal agreement that tcp/ip is not secure enough and that all traffic now sent should have the payload heavily encrypted. that would soon fuck up any attempt at deep packet inspection on a large scale.

There is also plenty of arguments out there saying a tiered internet would be more expensive to implement then just throwing much more bandwidth at the problem.

At the end of the day it really is best for consumers for there to be a balance between the two camps. transparent Quality of service implementation by the isps's and no throttling.

[Fiamma]

Every telco and cable co in the US used government subsidies and tax breaks to build their networks. Not happy with using taxpayer (free) money to have their mini (maxi in some cases) monopolies they now want to two tier the net. Pure unadulterated greed. The US has the poorest network infrastructure in the non third world, it's much slower than many other countries and it's users pay more to use it.

[unattended]

They've been talking about this forever it seems...it's the most retarded idea I've heard in quite a while.