[governance] net neutrality and mobiles

[parminder]

On Thursday 23 September 2010 11:23 AM, McTim wrote:
>    
>> >  agreement).
>> >
>> >  Customised handsets take one directly to a telecom operator controlled
>> >  portal,
>>      
> You mean like Compuserve and AOL in the early days of the commercial
> Internet?  Nothing new under the sun I'm afraid.
>
>    

Yes, i mean the same..... Only, this time they are much smarter and have 
done enough to get there act right.

In so many ways it is not the same Internet environment as at those 
early times - it is not the same kinds of possibilities on the Internet 
and not same  kind of services, not the same level of attention paid by 
all biggies to the Internet system as the only future, and not the same 
kind of users......

Just to give one example of the very much changed circumstances and the 
acute consolidation of market power, I quote from a recent email by 
Vittorio on the At Large mailing  list

    ".....(at least here in Italy) for the
    generation aged 15-25 Facebook === Internet. Most of them don't even
    have an email address any more (let alone blogs or personal websites),...."


Without early policy intervention, I have no doubt that their (the new 
Compuserve's and AOL's of the mobile Internet world) model will win out 
and will be the dominant one in the market.... Parminder
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