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FCC will reclassify broadband as a telco service
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN RUMOURS that the FCC was going to walk away from reclassifying Internet access as a telecommunications service, it looks like that strategy will go ahead.
By classifying Internet service providers (ISPs) as telecommunications services, the FCC can make them subject to tougher net neutrality rules. The telcos will go into a spin over this plan and have already been spending shedloads on lobbyists to prevent it from happening. They are terrified that net neutrality rules will stop them from throttling traffic or selling higher quality service to some content providers, and could mean that they will have to spend money to upgrade the bandwidth on their networks. It might also mean that they will not be able to charge people extra to get the bandwidth they promised.
The pressure they have been placing on politicians to stop net neutrality regulations has been so intense that many expected the FCC to back down.
However FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is now said to be readying a proposal that would put Internet access providers under the same Title II "common carrier" rules as phone companies, requiring providers to treat all data equally on their networks.
Not all of the same rules will apply, but which Title II regulations will be exempted are not known at this point. However it looks like the FCC will not do things like make mandatory allowance for other ISPs to run on the networks or any rate regulation. It likely will prohibit bandwidth throttling and bar ISPs from blocking specific applications and websites or favouring others with better service.
According to Electronista it is not clear whether the FCC will be able to make such a reclassification stick. But for the FCC, it might be easiest way around a court ruling that it needs a change in the law before it can mandate net neutrality while ISPs are regulated under Title I of the Federal Communications Act. µ
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Companies do not exist on their OWN money , they exist on the customers money (ours).
So if they are spending OUR money on lobbyists , if they win or lose , I see rate hikes in the future to RECOVER all that money spent on lobbyists and/or revenues lost from having to play fair.
The customer will always lose eventually and the CEO's and corporate execs. will always enjoy the rich life at OUR expense !
I'm still convinced the FCC is interested in net neutrality only as a vehicle to get control over the internet, a fox in sheep's clothing, and this only strengthens my view.
Wolves fighting foxes but whoever wins the chickens and sheep (as in us) won't be the winners.
reaching for more power would be good. I already consider my ISP a common carrier, and incidentally told them so during protest over what they call "In Browser Notification", and I call a "man in the middle" ATTACK, in which they were putting headers on pages, DESPITE my previous settings that had been working for two years. Man, that's not only annoying but points up the level of spying and control that actually exists, and what *more* would be easy to implement. Can't imagine anyone goes along with that intrusion, but the surveillance state -- or so close as makes no difference -- sneaks these things in to get everyone accustomed to them. Won't be long before the telescreens are shouting official instructions. (By the way, digital TVs are said able to be turned on remotely for precisely that purpose.)
Net Neutrality Brings BAD Evil Doers whom Ruin Internet. Porn, Malware,Spam & Flames. ALL Must be Accomadated. Although NOT Likely to Stop parental Controls, Parental Controls Are Illict Under Neutrality Rules, too.
Making Misha
toshbin RED'Rs' Tech Support on Cable, EG Some Nut in Vulagaria Controls English Home System, When Got on Phone & Grad Numbers.. Just to Get Login Nam.e Takes 18 Hours & Agree to Full concentra....errr,castration. Wait Till Rob Cyber Finds Way Out of A&E & Back Into Bedroom Scene. In Amee' Talk, *%@!^)+, spoken: Semi colan,percentageATexclamation pointee' Cristian. or Send Death Squad Over In Minute.
Obviously, Cable Taking Bite Out of Teco. Internet on Cable uses LESS Bandwidth than 500 P2P Channels Streaming, MUCH LESS. However, If Telco Had way, there Be ZERO Bandwidth, Just Auto Pay.
Something Like Mobi. Arrrgggghhhh, Der Great Whites Are Swarming In.
Not Much user Can Do, Send Some medical Marihuana to Elected Official, maybe.
Gennavesse is Long Island Mafia. God,Dra Women Are HOT.Mafia Entry Terminals. :).
So Are Genavesse Pistols, More Murder than US Army, thats Neutrality, for Ya.
On Tosh 14 Tb Hdd, looks like 7 Tb Ready to Fire Up,NOW. Meaning in 2 years Top Ultee', errr, Secret Units will be Placing. Look for 4 Tb in 2013+, maybe sooner, as 14 is 2018,Twangee'. so 4 and 8 are Already developed, 12 & 14 are in TS dahUltee' Bunkered & Fortified Lab Right Now. Could Be sooner if Some Mythical Technology Springs Up, to Snarl Tosh Dreams. Or Juniper Gets Neutraled.
Sure Brits Are Going In for whomping, As Gift Bearing Heliolitee, Converge. New Predictor States Housing Going Under Gun & in ~18 Months, ReD'r Be Crying Shame on Them. ~20% Decline. Well, if gov't don't Like People, Obviously Kill bloody Poor, They Care & Seem to Masse'
Another Form of Neutrality, Making Persona; property Illegal, Including Homes.
New Beta Glitch Is Bring Back Cursor Seeze Up. Remember when NT6 Cured in Vista & now -=7=- that WAS cool, ehh. If Really did boner Install,Then, 2007-'9, Computer can Slow to 1950s' Standards, yet Like 1950s', If Just leave System Alone, Get Job Done. Now forget that in -=7=-,Even 64 bit, As Malware Producers Spread Cursor Freeeze, Just End of era. Glitch, Freeze, Oh,Charlee', Oh, Grahams dang Post Posting Policy, Heavy Indian Nation Stuff.
Get Pardigimn Pencils Out, Nu Spelling Bee BeHives US.
drashek
great now if ofcom can do the same thing for us in the UK and get more of the dark Firbre BT laid back into operation so we can get lower contention and full use of our connection speed