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1. Comment - Advocacy groups already nervous about Xohm WiMAX policies

   (Sep 30, 2008 - 9:25 PM)

   The "neutrality" advocates obviously have never designed or managed a network... and it's pretty clear from statements like "why ... maintain a closed network when consumers demand an open Internet" that they are not very educated.
   
   Aside from the question of who gave them the right to speak for consumers, they are wrong.
   
   Consumers don't demand an "open Internet" ... whatever that means. Consumers demand fast access speeds, a traffic profile generous enough for normal surfing, email, youtube and similar applications at a reasonably cheap price.
   
   Sounds like that is exactly what Sprint is offering.
   
   What these "neutrality" advocates want is all-you-can-eat-at-access-line-speed for the price of a typical traffic profile, so that they can run bittorrent or limewire to obtain illegal copies of copyrighted material without paying the authors.
   
   Sorry. All-you-can-eat-at-access-line-speed service might be available from some companies, but it isn't the same price as normal consumer service. Based on the resource consumption compared to a normal consumer, that kind of unlimited service would be $500 per month, not $50.
   
   In fact, it's hard to tell if demanding all-you-can-eat-at-access-line-speed for the same price as normal consumer service is foolish, ignorant or disingenuous.
   
   Read more:
   
   http://blog.teracomtraining.com/net-neutrality
   
   http://blog.teracomtrain...ternet-a-public-utility