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

[Richard Solomon]

Unless you are a customer out in the Desert, then you are stuck with DSL 
and streaming
movies that look like the ones on my 1953 Admiral back in the B&W days.

If all this means I get 100 MB downloads in my lifetime, I am all for it.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On 2/26/2015 7:47 PM, Scott Manthe wrote:
> Tony,
> All of Netflix's customers are the beneficiary of this ruling, as well 
> as anyone who uses Youtube, Hulu or any other streaming service. 
> Netflix uses the most bandwidth because they have the most customers. 
> It isn't only the companies  like these that benefit, it's their 
> customers. The Internet doesn't exist as some libertarian fantasy 
> world. The only ones that were going to benefit from from being able 
> to turn the hose off and on were the one's who own the hose, not the 
> one's who use it. Net neutrality is not a bad thing.
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
>
> On 2/26/15 8:57 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ...internet is a national resource. No one should be able to "corner"
>>> it....
>>> ==========
>>   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. In any event, I'm just glad I'm 
>> not a
>> regulator.
>>
>> Tony KT0NY
>>
>
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