[governance] Not Network Neutrality: Bandwidth pricing is the

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Garth Graham wrote:
> On 15-Apr-08, at 1:54 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> The only way out of that dilemma is for customers to wise up and realize
>> that you don't get something for nothing. Customers will need to learn
>> to perceive the difference between a good service that costs a bit more
>> and a shared flat-rate service that keeps them waiting.
> 
> If only!  I am willing to pay a lot more for "good service" (which ipso 
> facto includes net neutrality) if it were available to me.  But it's not 
> (and I live in an urban area of 450,000 people).  And, in Canada, with 
> only 4 prime carriers now being de-regulated in favour of "market-based 
> approaches," it isn't going to be.  In the name of "customer service," 
> they are going to throttle bandwidth use to avoid building adequate 
> capacity into the last mile.  As citizens (not customers), it's way past 
> time to "demand" public policy that supports municipal ownership of open 
> networks as a commons-based public utility.

I agree. I am willing to pay but I'd like to know what I get for my 
money. It is about time that ISPs are required to deliver a specified 
minimum bandwidth instead of getting away with vague "up to" 
circumscriptions that leaves customers without any rights.

jeanette

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