[governance] BBC: May setting out plans to monitor internet use in UK

[Roland Perry]

In message <4FDADABA.5020105 at itforchange.net>, at 12:18:26 on Fri, 15 
Jun 2012, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>everyone seems to be happily ignoring the fact that the recently 
>released background brief on WCIT has the following as perhaps the only 
>para describing a substantive issue
>
>   "Meanwhile, some companies offer web-based services that are growing 
>in popularity, but which use increasing amounts of network capacity 
>without necessarily generating larger revenues for the companies that 
>provide the infrastructure. The market is evolving fast, just as demand 
>is booming worldwide. How is new infrastructure to be expanded to cope 
>with demand (especially in developing countries), and who should pay
 >for its expansion and its use"

The answer is "subscribers" (aka eyeballs), but that has a tension with 
"Network Neutrality" of the kind which says "Dear Customer, the amount 
of money you are paying is only sufficient for 1GB [or whatever] of 
traffic a month. Please upgrade to a more expensive package because you 
are using too much".

-- 
Roland Perry

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