GOLFnSUN
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|  Content providers won't get the blank check they want
Internet content providers are whining over nothing. There is plenty of enforcement in this bill. What it doesn't have is the blank check the content providers wanted that makes sure they can avoid any costs for their tremendous increase in bandwidth requirements.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter. No "network neutrality" bill had any chance of getting out of Congress this year. The only thing that will make it through is a national "video franchising" law.
A committee spokesman said the bill gave the FCC ample enforcement authority, including fines.
"The bill has more teeth than a pit bull, starting with full Title V enforcement authority for the FCC to investigate cases and slap violators with fines up to $25,000 a day," said Larry Neal, the committee's deputy staff director for communications.
"What it doesn't have is a blank check for bureaucrats to write so many regulations that they'll choke off brand-new services even before consumers try them out."
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| Since when did Internet content providers get a break? As far as I can tell, they still pay their upstream ISP if they use more bandwidth - and in a lot of cases, that can add up quickly.
That's the subtle little lie that the bells aren't admitting - nobody is getting a free ride as it stands. Everyone pays to put packets on the Internet. AT&T is irritated because they feel everyone should be paying them *IN ADDITION TO* their upstream provider. They want to be a defacto tax authority on the 'net. |
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said by GOLFnSUN  :Internet content providers are whining over nothing. There is plenty of enforcement in this bill. What it doesn't have is the blank check the content providers wanted that makes sure they can avoid any costs for their tremendous increase in bandwidth requirements. If "nothing" = being double-billed, then, yeah, they have nothing to "whine" about.
Content providers pay for the bandwidth they use. Some folks are just upset that they are paying a competitor. This is NOT the phone network with recip comp (yet).
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