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Re: Why I am Opposed to Net Neutrality

John Levine (johnl@iecc.com)
17 Aug 2006 02:07:34 -0000

> "Net neutrality" is a term few can agree on.

There is a perfectly good definition of net neutrality: everyone who
gets the same service pays the same price for it. Particularly if one
of the bodies is a subsidiary of the telco or cableco. A lot of us
have well-founded concerns that the telcos will make sweetheart deals
with themselves like they did with DSL, with the wholesale price to
everyone else somehow being more than the retail price their own
affiliate charges.

I don't think anyone except perhaps Verizon, AT&T, and Qwest would
object to this kind of requirement. Too bad there's such a huge and
needless fog around what should be a straightforward pro-competition
policy.

Regards,

John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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