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

[parminder]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <4D4697B7.5060207 at itforchange.net>, at 16:36:31 on Mon, 31 
> Jan 2011, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>
>> Net neutrality is being violated wholesale on wireless networks. No 
>> one is noticing much less complaining.  One top telecom rather 
>> pointedly calls it 'pay per site' tariff plan. see
> >http://www.tatadocomo.com/pay-per-site.aspx
>
> That seems to be a "pay for volume of traffic" plan (eg 200MB for 
> 10R's - approx $0.20), which I thought we'd agreed was acceptable. 
> [And about a tenth of what you'd pay in Europe].
I am not at all able to understand how you see a pay-per-site plan as a 
'pay -for-volume-of traffic' plan (volume being a site-neutral concept). 
This is moving towards a cable TV scenario - just many many more 
channels. An IGC member forwarded the enclosed graphic to me which is 
quite illustrative. It had come out in the US many years ago as a kind 
of dooms day prediction.... Now the doom looks so close by, almost 
already there.

Parminder
>
> Although the normal rate is 2.5GB for 65R's, which is cheaper! Do they 
> block the listed sites if you are on the normal rate - I agree that 
> wouldn't be fair.


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PK

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