[governance] Ethiopia criminalises the use of VOIP

[Roland Perry]

In message <99C4F5DB-67EC-419E-9368-F481ABA9CA3B at uzh.ch>, at 09:16:50 on 
Mon, 18 Jun 2012, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> writes

 >>Imagine, downloading huge file and having your provider pay you, 
 >>because they sent your way more IP packets that you sent back? :)
>
>Is this a typo?  It's obviously not you that'd get paid.  They want 
>foreign (US) ISPs and "OTT service providers" to pay them because you 
>downloaded using their apparently scarce bandwidth

It's the one of the several (differing) concepts which gets called the 
"Network Neutrality" name from time to time, and comes down to the 
argument over "who pays" for a big download.

Is it the information provider (Youtube, for example) because they don't 
have a business if people can't see their product, so they should be 
paying to have it delivered, just like Amazon pays to ship a book to 
you...

Or should the viewer pay (via fees to his connectivity ISP), because 
he's the one who wants to receive the content.

In the postal world it's long been accepted that the sender pays (even 
if he's using money he got from the customer by way of postage and 
packing fees).

In the telephony world, the sender (in as much as the person who placed 
the call is a sender) pays. [With a few exceptions, like in some 
countries mobile users pay to receive calls].

So it's not a huge stretch to assume (whether wrongly or not) that the 
only reason the Internet isn't sender-pays is because no-one has been 
bothered to set up the accounting mechanism yet.

And if it wasn't already complicated enough, very few 'viewers' pay 
monetary fees to content sites. Youtube is "free" (or at least, only 
costs you the few minutes of your time while you are forced to view 
adverts).
-- 
Roland Perry

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