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

[Ted Roycraft]

I am Comcast's customer. Not Netflix.  I pay more for a higher grade of 
service (higher speed).  I'm paying for the pipe.  How I use it is my 
business.  Comcast shouldn't further tax the other end of my connection 
or slow it down because the other end isn't paying Comcast anything.  
Have you looked at your cable bill lately? Companies like Comcast aren't 
suffering and it is to their advantage to improve services because they 
can continue, under the new regulations, charge us, their customers, more.

73, Ted, W2ZK

On 2/27/2015 12:30 AM, dave wrote:
>
> Be careful what you wish for here. Keep in mind that once the 
> entrenched providers get the regs they crave new services will grind 
> to a halt. There will simply be too many barriers to entry. No new 
> competitors will enter the field. At least not until the subsidies get 
> so grossly unbalanced that the pot of gold is then worth the effort 
> (see MCI vs AT&T).
>
> The internet has grown rapidly *because* it is not regulated. Once it 
> gets regulated then everything must go through regulatory approval. 
> There will fewer and fewer new services.
>
> A good example of this is 'high speed' - 64 kb - data service to the 
> home. AT&T had the technology available in the early to mid 70's. 
> Called it ISDN. But due to both internal politics and regulatory 
> issues it was not rolled out until the early 90's. Much too late. The 
> same thing will happen once the pols take over the internet. Nothing 
> will get approved without them getting their cut.
>
> As for those who say the the internet is a utility . . . well . . . 
> your electric service is a utility. Does everyone pay the same 
> electric bill no matter how much electricity they use? Broadband 
> should be no different. Those who use the most should pay the most. 
> There is no justification for taxing those who use little bandwidth to 
> subsidize the heavy users. Let the heavy users pay their fair share 
> and not burden those who are light users.
>
> Just as in electricity, it is cheap and easy to measure the quantity 
> consumed by each user. No justification whatsoever for charging one 
> flat fee to all (none that is, other than "I want somebody else to pay 
> for my bandwidth").
>
> 73 de dave
> ab9ca/4
>
>
>
> On 2/26/15 10:30 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> On 2015-02-26 11:08 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>>> Has anyone read the regulations that they kept hidden?  Do we really
>>> know what is in them?
>>
>> Look at the last set of "Net Neutrality" regulations from the FCC -
>> the ones that the industry had over turned on the grounds that the
>> Commission did not have the authority to adopt them because "Broadband
>> was not a utility".
>>
>> Seems to me the industry got what they wanted <G> forced the Commission
>> to reclassify "Information Service" as "Communications Utility."  Voice
>> and cable have been regulated as utilities for a very long time - who
>> in their right mind would consider broadband data delivered on the very
>> same networks to be anything other than a utility for the very reasons
>> that voice and cable are utilities?
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>     ... Joe, W4TV
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