[Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in Morse code!!

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Has anyone read the regulations that they kept hidden?  Do we really 
know what is in them?

I am not a big fan of the gov't sticking their fingers into everything.  
I have no more trust in them handling this any better than everything 
else the touch, regulate, control, etc.

I am quite skeptical of the reasons behind this less than transparent 
change.

Mike W0MU

On 2/26/2015 8:33 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> On 2015-02-26 8:57 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
>> Unfortunately, so-called "neutrality" means that one company,
>> Netflix, can corner it without paying for it. Netflix accounts for
>> up to 35% of internet traffic, and is really the one and only
>> beneficiary of this ruling. Everybody else is subsidizing them.
>
> Netflix and other information providers play plenty to enter the
> data on the web.  Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, etc. have
> no business holding the end users for ransom when it comes to
> receiving that data and/or determining what data the user may
> access.  At least they are being told they can't do with broadband
> what they (the cable companies) have done to niche players in the
> video arena for decades (pay for play).
>
> Not only should the consumer access providers be treated like
> common carriers, they should be treated like public utilities they are
> and be required to provide equivalent service levels at the same price
> to all customers whether they live in the metropolitan core or some-
> where west of Last Gasp.  Cable companies have forever "creamed" their
> franchise areas, shaking down developers for the cost of wiring new
> projects and/or demanding CC&Rs that limit access to competing service,
> and wiring high density housing while bypassing older areas with one
> home per one, five or ten acres even when both are encompassed by the
> same franchise territory.
>
> Perhaps this will start to put an end to one of the poorest performing
> and most variable user access systems in the world.  When it comes to
> data rates and cost the US isn't even in the top tier.
>
> 73,
>
>   ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
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