04-09-2011, 09:00 AM
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U.S. House Votes Against ?Net Neutrality?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/bu...html?src=busln
[WASHINGTON] ? The House of Representatives approved a measure on Friday that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating how Internet service providers manage their broadband networks, potentially overturning a central initiative of the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski. ..
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This bill will probably die in the Senate or be vetoed by President Obama.
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[Few] of the debaters raised some of the more technical issues that are at the center of the debate over broadband regulation, like specialized services and tiered rates. Specialized services, for which a broadband company uses part of its Internet pipeline to deliver dedicated services to specific customers, worry regulators who fear that companies will invest more to develop those more profitable offerings while neglecting to update basic broadband service.
Representative Lee Terry, a Nebraska Republican, said during the debate that supporters of the F.C.C.?s order wanted ?to give the F.C.C. power over business plans,? by restricting the ability of broadband service companies to offer tiered service, for which customers pay based on the amount of Internet bandwidth they use.
Just as a customer at a fast-food restaurant pays more for a large Coke than for a small one, Mr. Terry said, Internet companies should be free to charge customers more if they consume a greater amount of bandwidth because of heavy use of features like streaming video. ...
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Sounds like subscription digital video ? Netflix and Hulu come to mind ? is a threat to Cable ISPs. Some ISPs want to charge you four times the going rate for bandwidth as overages. Why is that?
As usual, if passed this will cost you. Deregulation sounds nice but it does not always increase competition and lower prices.
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