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Bell South Wants to Control Internet!!!!

Dec 1, 2005 2:45AM PST
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002109.html

This article talks about how Bell South want to have the right to slow down the internet for service that don't pay it. An example cites is that if Yahoo pays Bell South then their searches would work faster than a Google search. They were careful to say that you would always be able to get to all products, but if they were not featured products they would work slower. What kind of crap is this. I just want my ISP to give me the internet. I don't want you to filter it, I don't want you to slow it down, I don't want you to block items that use a lot of bandwidth.

This is crazy. Maybe we should just move to macedonia (where they are in the process of getting a country wide wi-fi network)

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Not right
Dec 1, 2005 6:06AM PST

That's not right at all. It sounds like typical big buisness to me. They just want to get more and more money. I wouldn't be supprised if Bell South doesn't even pay attention to their own customers.

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Backbone providers
Dec 1, 2005 11:52PM PST

In the 12/1 podcast Tom makes refference to a few backbone providers, Genuity, PSI... most of them don't exist in that fashion anymore. PSI was aquired by Cogent, Genuity is no more... As an employee of a backbone provider I'm guessing this plan isn't going to work. It makes no sense to put needless artificial strain on routers to rate limit traffic to a provider just to hold them hostage.

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How stupid are these guys?
Dec 2, 2005 12:19AM PST

Do they know they are not the only ISP around and any intentional slow down of certain sites will just cause people to switch.