[governance] [Fwd: The Not-So-Neutral Net]

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<AANLkTikD6_dhNVOAdSD4DCyRpAS_WjFPhXMS3EZ0Of1H at mail.gmail.com>, at 
13:48:24 on Sun, 30 Jan 2011, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> 
writes
>Is MetroPCS (or AT&T, or Verizon, etc ..) operating in India ? Is India 
>gov supporting NN ? If so the Indian telecom authority could rule that 
>telecom operators in India may not discriminate services offered to 
>Indian consumers, or else they would not be allowed to offer 
>international services in India

Is that "no discrimination by content type", or "no discrimination by 
volume"?

If a movie takes 1GB to deliver, would be allowed to say "sorry, no 
files above 0.5GB"[1] which would be a disguised ban on movies.

[1] Or perhaps "unless you pay extra".
-- 
Roland Perry
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