[governance] net neutrality

[SAMUELS,Carlton A]

Dear Parminder:
If you recall my perspective, I have been consistent in maintaining that the popular view of 'net neutrality' is a mirage, never existed; preferential customer-driven traffic management and routing decisions are and have always been part of the standard operations of telecommunications carriers, even before the Internet busted out.

Somebody has to pay the bills.  And in competitive markets, customer preference is often productized to further fuel and drive customer behaviours.  In other words, commercial considerations takes pole position when there is money to be made.

Unless the Indian regulator - the State - is willing to outlaw such products or use regulation to make them unattractive, then there will be more copycats in the market.  Why, maybe you are on the first wave of even more ingenious packaging. The future has come to India.


Carlton

-----Original Message-----
From: parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:53 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] net neutrality


See here new pay per site plans for Internet mobile in India

http://www.tatadocomo.com/pps-tariff-plans.aspx

  http://www.tata.com/article.aspx?artid=I+qapklYkjQ=


Another Indian telecom, Tata DoCoMo has announced a select boutique of
email and social networking sites for about a dollar a month. (The
public Internet is of course for a much higher price.) It is obvious
that net neutrality is already dead on the wireless internet, as we
still argue about definitions and technical intricacies. The fact that
is simple and clearly understood by anyone is - IGC's  website, for
instance, is much more expensive to reach and browse than Facebook,
Twitter and Gmail put together. That is the problem, i.e. if we are
indeed inclined to see any problem there. And if we see here the death
of what was the most important promise of the Internet - that of pulling
all of us - or at least all of our content - to the same starting point
on the Internet.

Wonder why we keep insisting the problem is much more complex, or
technical etc. I think it is simple and clear as day light.

Parminder


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