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Verizon defends its 'net neutrality' scheme
US TELECOM Verizon has defended its so-called "net neutrality" pact that it cooked up with Google.
The plan means that Verizon can throttle mobile users and charge website owners for wireless traffic. However it will let landline users alone, unless it has to 'manage' them, that is.
A senior Verizon Communications executive defended the giant telco's proposed policy draft telling the FCC how it should mostly not regulate the Internet and leave the corporations alone.
Tom Tauke, Verizon's EVP of public affairs, told Market Watch that the way the plan was being characterised was wrong. Network neutrality, or the equal treatment of all Internet traffic was an "elephant that is still in the room", he claimed.
Tauke said that many have simply "decided to engage in the long-perpetuated narrative of a two-tiered Internet," which he called "dead wrong".
Verizon and Google were traditional rivals when it comes to network neutrality, and the fact they have hatched a plan that preserves transparency but also would enable operators to invest adequately in their networks was important, Tauke claimed.
The development of the wireless Internet requires a different set of rules, he said.
Tauke said that the controversy stirred by the proposal's treatment of wireless networks has been a little ironic, because Verizon is the only US outfit that has a requirement for open access.
Unfortunately Tauke would probably rather that Verizon did not have that requirement. When it bid for a chunk of valuable wireless spectrum in 2008, it came with open access rules. µ
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WOW. Google are now one of the most powerful companies on the planet.
Data, the new oil.
There is money in them thar wireless routers, mobile internets etc.
Google is mapping the world market for internet. Clever clever b'stards!
I bet that they also mapped 3G/HSDPA/Whatever capability too.
Think about it. Mapping the world's internet access, that has real value.
And Google knows your ip, so they also know whether it's from a landline or mobile operator.
Right, so Google know who is buying what, how they are connecting to the internet, how much they are paying for internet access etc.
WOW. Google are now one of the most powerful companies on the planet.
Data, the new oil.
There is money in them thar wireless routers, mobile internets etc.
Google is mapping the world market for internet. Clever clever b'stards!
I bet that they also mapped 3G/HSDPA/Whatever capability too.
Think about it. Mapping the world's internet access, that has real value.
And Google knows your ip, so they also know whether it's from a landline or mobile operator.
Right, so Google know who is buying what, how they are connecting to the internet, how much they are paying for internet access etc.
WOW. Google are now one of the most powerful companies on the planet.
Data, the new oil.