By: Dvord2569

Dvord2569 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:02 +0000

I’ll take the tyranny of the public sector over the tyranny of the private sector any day of the week. ESPECIALLY when it comes to things that everyone needs and uses; like healthcare and internet access.

By: Garydun

Garydun — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:05 +0000

I can appreciate some of the points here, however, although the rallying cry of “make the big telecom giants submit” gets lots of sympathy, let’s think about some other issues. Mainly lets think about bandwidth consumption on a network wide scope. Without some checks and balances this gets out of hand real fast. The idea of everybody on a level playing field is nice but lets face it everybody isn’t equal unless you want to say that a 2 man shop with a thirty dollar DSL connection is the same as a DS3 customer with a big whopping SLA to go with his big whopping bill.Does the DS3 guys data get priority over the DSL guys? Right now yes but I can see where that could change given the direction we seem to be headed in.Do I agree that providers should be able to ride rough shod and give themselves an unfair advantage over their competitors? Yes I do! We aren’t talking about public domain here….these are privately owned networks…they couldn’t control it if it didn’t belong to them, right? The whole upshot here is this , once again big brother is stepping in to protect us from ourselves…….leave it alone and let the marketplace regulate itself! I fear that once they get their hooks into this, the possibilities are terrifying.

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