[170062] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Sun Mar 23 22:31:22 2014
From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: Keegan Holley <no.spam@comcast.net>, David Miller <dmiller@tiggee.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 02:31:01 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6C136BD0-8675-4115-9F87-0AB8202B7DD0@comcast.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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There may not need to be competition in the capitalist sense of the word bu=
t there needs to be some feedback loop for the consumer of a service to pro=
vide feedback on their satisfaction with it. In the case of a government p=
rovided service people vote at the polls. With a commercially provided ser=
vice people vote with their money.
Without any recourse for the consumer of a service there is no motivation t=
o improve or advance the technology.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keegan Holley [mailto:no.spam@comcast.net]=20
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 1:08 PM
>To: David Miller
>Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>Subject: Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
>How come no one ever asks if competition is required?
