Comments on: Verizon CTO Endorses Metered Broadband, Which Should Allay Net Neutrality Concerns

By: pulo

pulo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:58:15 +0000

what does he mean by: “level of service that is not on a public Internet”? specifically, which part is not public internet? does he mean a different level of service only for Verizon content?

By: pulo

pulo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:58:15 +0000

what does he mean by: “level of service that is not on a public Internet”? specifically, which part is not public internet? does he mean a different level of service only for Verizon content?

By: Wes Felter

Wes Felter — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:14:15 +0000

Did you look at Speakeasy? They have been very geek-friendly.

By: dm

dm — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:06 +0000

For those following the net neutrality debate, there's a great editorial on it at Ars Technica today: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09...

It directly addresses a pair of articles praised here at TLF --- the recent Washington Post and Wall Street Journal OP-ed pieces.

By: dm

dm — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:58:33 +0000

It was Verizon's lack of such service that caused me to seek out another ISP — even though Verizon delivers the wires to my house, some of those icky, nasty regulations so abhorred here require the local telephone company to lease the wires to other ISPs essentially at cost, a tremendous boon to customers (except when something goes wrong, then there can be an annoying amount of finger-pointing).

By: Alex Kirk

Alex Kirk — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:58:12 +0000

If only they would, while they're at it, set up a "geek-level" service that allowed home users to run servers on a static IP address, with perhaps a hair more bandwidth, at a price between the standard home user price and business-level service. I don't need a 24x7 SLA, I just want inbound port 80 opened up.

I guess this is one of the reasons I distrust the free market in the realm of ISPs, at least to an extent. There's a clear market for this type of service, and I've spoken to customer service people at multiple companies who say they've heard thousands of people asking for it, and yet this sort of option has never once sprung up. While I'm certainly not advocating for direct enough intervention by the government to force this particular service to appear, I guess it just seems symptomatic of the larger problem - that the very small number of ISPs out there, who are quasi-monopolistic by virtue of their size and geographic coverage, don't listen to their customers. If they're not listening to people willing to pay them more money, what makes me think they'll listen to people asking to not pay more money later on down the road?

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:23:51 +0000

$20/month for 10GB is plenty for the average person. If they would set up a $10/5GB plan, then I think we'd see the end of dialup altogether.

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