Comments on: Verizon Network Hog Nonsense http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/ More Signal. Less Noise. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:29:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Oligopolist http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-139 Oligopolist Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:26:19 +0000 http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-139 Forget about the bandwidth they reserve for their private video network. The real issue is their demand for "class of service surcharge" on their Internet bandwidth. Verizon, AT&T, the cable companies have oligopoly control of broadband to the end user. If they want to create a two tiered data network, and charge content providers for the faster tier, they must apply that same pricing to their own internal content providers. If Vonage has to pay for the higher class of service to get realtime performance, then Verizon's voicewing division has to pay as well. If there isn't a way to enforce this policy, then the Broadbander's (V.,T., Comcast...) have to divest of their data applications, or forsake this higher performance surcharge and just continue with our current neutral Internet. They already have an unfair advantage in that they can locate their high performance applications "closer" to their endusers. In a better world they'd have to keep their applications separate from their network until we had multiple, competitive broadband providers to the end user. A quick search of the net (quick because the net is still neutral) comes up with a well written version of my position - http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2006/01/21.html Forget about the bandwidth they reserve for their private video network. The real issue is their demand for “class of service surcharge” on their Internet bandwidth. Verizon, AT&T, the cable companies have oligopoly control of broadband to the end user. If they want to create a two tiered data network, and charge content providers for the faster tier, they must apply that same pricing to their own internal content providers. If Vonage has to pay for the higher class of service to get realtime performance, then Verizon’s voicewing division has to pay as well. If there isn’t a way to enforce this policy, then the Broadbander’s (V.,T., Comcast…) have to divest of their data applications, or forsake this higher performance surcharge and just continue with our current neutral Internet. They already have an unfair advantage in that they can locate their high performance applications “closer” to their endusers. In a better world they’d have to keep their applications separate from their network until we had multiple, competitive broadband providers to the end user.

A quick search of the net (quick because the net is still neutral) comes up with a well written version of my position – http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2006/01/21.html

]]> By: robhyndman.com http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-138 robhyndman.com Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:54:08 +0000 http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-138 [...] Update: Cynthia Brumfield of IP Democracy doubts the technical claims underlying the Business Week piece. See also Andrew Schmitt of Nyquist Capital. [...] [...] Update: Cynthia Brumfield of IP Democracy doubts the technical claims underlying the Business Week piece. See also Andrew Schmitt of Nyquist Capital. [...]

]]> By: sampath http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-137 sampath Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:40:37 +0000 http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2006/02/03/verizon-network-hog-nonsense/#comment-137 i agree with you. comcast reserves 95% of their capacity for their content! (of the ~800mhz, almost 750mhz is reserved for video). if anyone has a problem, please feel free to invest $1500 a house and pass fiber which you can do what you like with it. i agree with you. comcast reserves 95% of their capacity for their content! (of the ~800mhz, almost 750mhz is reserved for video).

if anyone has a problem, please feel free to invest $1500 a house and pass fiber which you can do what you like with it.

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