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Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Mon Mar 2 09:40:47 2015

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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:40:44 -0800
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 03/02/2015 06:22 AM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here.
> Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service.
> 
> People don't miss what they have never had.

I would agree with that statement in a slightly modified form:

"People don't miss what they never had with their home Internet."

At work, the story can be different because a business may well be
spending the bucks for symmetrical service, or the applications in the
business never go off-site.


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