Comments on: Broadband law rewrite planned for 2006

A top Republican politico says to expect a "comprehensive" proposal to overhaul U.S. telecommunications laws this month.

[thenet411]

Telecommunists

Look, this is a bad idea no matter how you look at it. It is the fault of the CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and CTOs of these big telecommunist companies that are so out of touch with reality. They have no understanding of the Internet and what it means. They don't understand its nature. We need to keep these ancient relics under control until we move them into rest homes.

[thenet411]

Telecommunists

Look, this is a bad idea no matter how you look at it. It is the fault of the CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and CTOs of these big telecommunist companies that are so out of touch with reality. They have no understanding of the Internet and what it means. They don't understand its nature. We need to keep these ancient relics under control until we move them into rest homes.

[directorblue]

3 Questions for the Carriers....

1) Will you use deep packet inspection to analyze and/or meter customer behavior?

2) Will you offer tiered (e.g., "gold", "silver", and "bronze") Internet packages to customers who are otherwise operating at the same bandwidth?

3) Will you monitor, delay, and/or block voice-over-IP (VoIP), peer-to-peer file transfers, or any type of service used by customers?

The hardware that Cisco and others are pitching the carriers implies that, indeed, they are exploring new, intrusive, and anti-innovation methods of controlling what transits their networks:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/02/end-of-internet-another-fantastic-deal.html

[directorblue]

3 Questions for the Carriers....

1) Will you use deep packet inspection to analyze and/or meter customer behavior?

2) Will you offer tiered (e.g., "gold", "silver", and "bronze") Internet packages to customers who are otherwise operating at the same bandwidth?

3) Will you monitor, delay, and/or block voice-over-IP (VoIP), peer-to-peer file transfers, or any type of service used by customers?

The hardware that Cisco and others are pitching the carriers implies that, indeed, they are exploring new, intrusive, and anti-innovation methods of controlling what transits their networks:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2006/02/end-of-internet-another-fantastic-deal.html