[132698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Tue Nov 30 08:08:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <20101130042042.GA59064@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:08:49 -0500
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> I will be the first to advocate the government use minimal to no
> regulation where there is active competition and consumer choice,
> and thus folks can "vote with their dollars".
>
> Broadband in the US is not in that boat. =A0Too many consumers have
> a "choice" of a single provider. =A0The vast majority of the rest
> have the "choice" of two providers. =A0We make these monopoly or
I believe regulation of peering among the largest networks in the U.S.
is a question of when and how, not if. The more these incidents make
it into the news and attract the attention of public policy-makers,
the closer that "when" may become. Comcast is either very clever, or
very stupid, for timing this in such a way that it has been spun into
an issue of who is streaming what into their customers' living rooms.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
