[169932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs' refusal to upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 20 23:59:15 2014
In-Reply-To: <532B4CE8.3020406@bryanfields.net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:58:18 -0400
To: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
> On 3/20/14, 12:34 PM, Blake Hudson wrote:
>> The solution seems to be competition or regulation.
> I'd prefer competition to regulation.
When regulation is done well, competition is the result. Consider the
following hypothetical regulation:
1. Any company which deploys communication cable in a public
right-of-way is forbidden to sell data storage, data content or
services delivering specific data content of any kind including: web
sites or web hosting services, email services, audio and visual
recordings, television channels.
2. Any company which employs communication cable in a public
right-of-way is required to sell its services on a reasonable and
non-discriminatory (RAND) basis to all who wish to buy.
What would be the result?
Incidentally, this isn't a fresh idea. The FCC first got the notion
over 50 years ago and more or less regulated telecommunications that
way for a quarter of a century.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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