The earliest material in my e-mail archives that I can find about Net Neutrality dates from 2006. Things like this:
"Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbying the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network. In political lingo this means abandoning what is called "Net Neutrality". In common sense terms it's about the government withdrawing our right to Internet Freedom, it's about the Death of The Internet."
There's always a lot of doom and gloom talk about what evil US telecoms companies will do if regulation is not enforced to quality fix internet service in one particular country with less than 20% of the world's internet users on it.
The real problem is lack of competition at an urban level in the US. It's a specific problem, quality fixing is not the solution, it will entrench the incumbents. It's not even a new problem, the equivalent of the local loop for broadband has to be unbundled to fix this.
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The earliest material in my e-mail archives that I can find about Net Neutrality dates from 2006. Things like this:
"Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbying the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network. In political lingo this means abandoning what is called "Net Neutrality". In common sense terms it's about the government withdrawing our right to Internet Freedom, it's about the Death of The Internet."
There's always a lot of doom and gloom talk about what evil US telecoms companies will do if regulation is not enforced to quality fix internet service in one particular country with less than 20% of the world's internet users on it.
The real problem is lack of competition at an urban level in the US. It's a specific problem, quality fixing is not the solution, it will entrench the incumbents. It's not even a new problem, the equivalent of the local loop for broadband has to be unbundled to fix this.