[Fwd: [governance] Net Neutrality Decision]

[Roland Perry]

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<AANLkTikSti6LzPEXBu3CJtuhXGK+eYzc0WncPyyMtc_n at mail.gmail.com>, at
10:59:26 on Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> writes
>According to Ian Scales a journalist with Telecom TV, Verizon has taken FCC
>to Court to challenge their decision. I am eagerly watching the FCC website
>for outcomes, and I cannot authenticate if this information is correct,
>however, because it has been reported, came out on the 21st but been busy
>lately with a few things that I did not send it through:
>
>http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47171&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10

It seems to me that the focus is now moving onto - what content should
be outside of an "all inclusive" package on a Smartphone.

When the UK government held their 3G spectrum auction eleven years ago
(which cost the industry the equivalent of around 30 Billion dollars), I
was one of those who wrote that I did not think they could recoup that
investment (let alone ongoing costs) by letting subscribers "watch
movies on their handsets, on the way home from work" (which was one of
the 'new and shiny' uses for 3G where ministers were slightly
misqoted[1]), for no extra cost.

While everyone probably agrees that Netflix and BBC iPlayer are huge
bandwidth consumers on the local loop, I feel that Skype has been
somewhat caught in the crossfire by introducing videoconferencing (where
simple voice, let alone IM, uses much less bandwidth of course, although
both activities abstract revenue from legacy telcos, which complicates
the picture).

[1] Their press release doesn't actually mention watching movies, only
"music and pictures, and videoconferences" (the latter would be lower
bandwidth and probably a pay-per-view experience):

        "3G has the potential to transform everyday life, opening up
        full scale, multi-media access to millions of people. 3G users
        will be able to surf the net, download e-mails, music and high
        quality pictures and hold video conferences all on the move."

-- 
Roland Perry
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