Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 12/14/2010 15:23, Douglas Otis wrote:
> On 12/14/10 2:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> > > >  To what end?  And who's calling the shots there these days?  Comcast
> > > >  has been nothing but shady for the last couple years.  Spoofing
> > > >  resets, The L3 issue, etc.  What's the speculation on the end game?
> > I believe Comcast has made clear their position that they feel content
> > providers should be paying them for access to their customers.
> The Internet would offer lesser value by allowing access providers to
> hold their customers hostage.  Clearly, such providers are not acting in
> their customer's interests when inhibiting access to desired and
> legitimate content.  What is net neutrality expected to mean?
>
> Providers should charge a fair price for bandwidth offered, not over
> sell the bandwidth, and not constrain bandwidth below advertised rates. 
> Congestion pricing rewards bad practices that leads to the congestion.

I just see this as a natural progression of what happens of a single
player with a captive audience due to mergers and attrition. They know
their customers aren't going anywhere. The only way to "fix" it would be
to go back to the days when there were a bunch of competing local providers.

~Seth