[governance] Network Neutrality - A key IG issue ... ?

[Carlos Afonso]

Wow, wonderful ISPs you have, Jacqueline!

Here in BR the main backbone operators, which are also the providers of 
broadband to home, monitor/censor/retard packets at will, depending on 
how they affect their interests (as they are conglomerates selling both 
connectivity and content).

I cannot watch Joost or any other IPTV service which does not belong to 
the cable company, for example, in my 8 Mb/s cable modem link (random 
interruptions), cannot run an ftp or mail server, or even a plain Web 
server on my end of the link using standard ports etc -- in summary, 
they arbitrarily decide which packets you can send/receive, and how. The 
link itself is excellent -- I just downloaded a full Ubuntu CD in less 
than 20 minutes (they seem to like Ubuntu ;)).

In short, they interfere with content, and this is not anywhere in the 
contract. The contract says (in euphemistic words) that they will sell 
more bandwidth than they can cope with and the user should not expect to 
get the full up/down nominal speeds specified in the contract. But it 
does not even suggest you cannot try to use the full nominal bandwidth 
specified in the contract.

In short, again, a flurry of consumer rights' violations.

--c.a.

Jacqueline A. Morris wrote:
> Robert Guerra wrote:
>> Kwasi:
>>
>> As the issue you raise is really more related to network neutrality, i 
>> hope you don't mind that I've changed the subject line...
> How? Isn't this just pricing? We have some ISPs that offer unlimited 
> bandwidth, some that offer transfer limits, with more data transfer for 
> more $$, but they are all neutral as to the content that you 
> send/receive and who you are. I know that my mobile internet (unlimited 
> data at home) is very much metered in the US (when I checked email on my 
> cell phone in JFK airport, I got data charges by the kb)
> Jacqueline
> 
> 
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