Comments on: Net Neutrality Debate – Gilder Telecosm 2006

By: Net Neutrality War Heating Up at Nyquist Capital

Net Neutrality War Heating Up at Nyquist Capital — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:53:36 +0000

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By: davis freeberg

davis freeberg — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:38:42 +0000

Yes – The Governator just signed it into law and I’m am absolutely thrilled about this because I plan on ditching Comcast as soon as I can. I think this will do a lot to helping bring competition to the Bay Area where even Google is still fighting with our politicians to provide something as outrageous as free wifi for the citizens without paying for all kinds of pet projects.

Nonetheless though, not every state is as progressive as California and I wouldn’t be surprised if the negotiations at the state level end up including forced HDTV for public access channels, even though they have the capabilites to just upload it to the internet and have nobody watch it there.

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:13:36 +0000

Davis- didn’t CA just pass a law allowing carriers to apply for a statewide license? Shouldn’t this drop regulatory barriers to new entrants?

Nethead – It was most certainly Title. I have not had time to look into this.

By: Nethead

Nethead — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:03:06 +0000

Is he saying Title or Tier? Perhaps the discussion was about the large Tier 1 networks that don’t pay other networks to carry their traffic and smaller Teir 2 networks that pay.

By: Davis Freeberg

Davis Freeberg — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:19:28 +0000

Great coverage like always. It sounds like a lot of interesting stuff. I would almost agree that we don’t need net neutrality, excpet that the cablecos have been granted monopoly powers and consumers have no way to go to competition. In San Francisco, you either have Comcast or nothing if you want cable TV and cable broadband. If the market was open for anyone to come in and provide service, then I’d say let the open market sort it out, but to give the government the power to pick and choose which provider you have and then to let that provider discriminate as to which internet sites and services can connect to their system just doesn’t seem right.

I disagree about it being an unwinnable argument, with the war chest that the cablecos and telcos have, they’ll easily buy off Congress and will maintain their government sponsored monopoly on our entertainment choices.